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Dedicated first-generation research allows for evidence-based decision-making that is critical to student success. This section highlights both foundational research and recent scholarship that informs understanding of the student experience, institutional approaches to programming, and identification of supports and barriers for first-generation students. Timely updates on public policy discussions shaping first-generation student success are also provided. In addition to the filters below, please utilize the “search” bar in the top, right corner to search by keyword, author name, or publication title.

 

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Decoding the Academy: A Roadmap for First-generation College Students Through Graduate Education
FEATURE | Aug 26, 2024

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National Data Fact Sheets on First-generation College Students and Graduates
FEATURE | September 2024

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First-generation Students in Community and Technical Colleges
FEATURE | November 2020

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First-generation Student Success: A Landscape Analysis
FEATURE | October 2018

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Classism and Social-Emotional Experiences of First-Gen Students

This study examined the association between institutional classism and students’ social-emotional experiences in higher education, and how these relations vary based on sociorace, first-generation college student status, and subjective social status.

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice / February 2021
Transitioning to College: Experiences of Successful First-gen Students

This qualitative study explored the high school to college transition experiences of ten successful first generation college students.

Journal of Educational and Research Practice / February 2021
two female students sitting with male professor
When Low-Income, First-Gen Students Seek Help From Programs

The author conducted in-depth, longitudinal interviews with 8 female, low-income, first-generation college students over the course of their first year to understand how they experience, utilize, and find value in two different student support programs at one public, 4-year university.

Journal of College Student Development / February 2021
How First-Year and First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life

College Belonging reveals how colleges’ and universities’ efforts to foster a sense of belonging in their students are misguided.

Nunn / February 2021
Group of students walking
Difference-Education Improves First-gen Students’ Grades

At two universities, the authors delivered difference-education interventions during the college transition and examined long-term academic and intergroup outcomes.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin / February 2021
The case for first-gen status in Australian higher ed equity policy

Responding to calls for reform, this paper draws on survey data from 6,492 students in NSW government schools to examine the extent to which a new category warrants inclusion in the national framework: first-generation status.

The Australian Educational Researcher / February 2021
Mt Hood CC female student on bench
Experiences of first-gen scholars at a highly selective UK university

Drawing on 18 interviews with first generation students at Durham University, the researchers identified five sites of pressure: developing a sense of belonging within the terms of an elite university culture; engagement in student social activities; financial worries; concerns about academic progress, and self transformation.

Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences / February 2021
Social media use by first-gen students and two forms of social capital

The purpose of this study is to examine social media use and its impacts on first generation students by answering the two questions: how do FGS use social media on college campuses, compared to their peers? How does the use of social media affect their academic experiences?

Information Technology & People / February 2021
First-Gen Students in Distance Education: Resources and Outcomes

This study investigated whether two family resource variables—providing guidance about university and expressing supportive attitudes toward university—varied across generation status among distance education students.

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning / February 2021
Student Walking through a Door
Relationships of belonging and task socialization to GPA, intent to re-enroll

The authors examined longitudinal changes in new college students’ perceptions of belonging and task mastery socialization effectiveness and their relationships to re-enrollment intentions and subsequent GPAs as a function of race/ethnicity and first-generation status.

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education / January 2021
Family Support as a Protective Resource for Mexican First-Gen Students

The present study examines the potential protective effect of familial support among first-gen Mexican descent college students regarding GPA, college persistence, and depressive symptoms.

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education / January 2021
Affirming independent and interdependent values mitigates mismatch

Many first‐generation college students experience a “cultural mismatch” due to a lack of alignment between the independent values of their university and their own interdependent values.

Journal of Social Issues / January 2021
Predictors of Stress in First-Generation College Students

A multiple regression analysis was performed to determine if self-esteem, social support, locus of control, or coping strategies could predict perceived stress in first-generation college students.

Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice / January 2021
The Hidden Curriculum: First Generation Students at Legacy Universities

A revealing look at the experiences of first generation students on elite campuses and the hidden curriculum they must master in order to succeed

Gable / January 2021
First-Generation Students and Academic Libraries

This article reports the results of an exploratory study to better understand the experiences of first-generation college students at three universities.

portal: Libraries and the Academy / January 2021
two students standing and reading in library
Collecting First-Generation Voices in Academic Libraries and Archives

This article provides a brief overview of first-generation populations, a review of literature relating to the increasing involvement of libraries and archives in capturing and preserving the stories of underdocumented communities in the twenty-first century, and three case studies.

College & Research Libraries / January 2021
Stress, self-compassion, and well-being during the transition to college

The present study sought to build an explanatory person-centered and contextualized model of student wellbeing in the transition to college.

Social Science & Medicine / January 2021
Addressing the Workforce Crisis Begins with Diversifying the Pipeline

This brief identifies the need to increase the number of health care professionals in California, reviews the benefits of diversifying student pipelines into health professions, and makes key recommendations for state policymakers’ consideration that would increase the number of first-generation, low-income and underrepresented students of color who enter health care professions.

Beyond 12 / January 2021