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Research & Policy

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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Promoting Academic Achievement Among Diverse Learners in College

This chapter focuses on evaluating research on initiatives or programs to promote academic achievement among diverse learners at the university-level.

Peart / May 2020
Status Variation in Anticipatory Stressors and Depressive Symptoms

This study uses data collected as part of a national survey of college seniors to examine how anticipatory stress varies by gender identity, race-ethnicity, sexual orientation, and first-generation college student status.

Journal of Health and Social Behavior / May 2020
Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States

This report tracks college entrance and completion by family income, socioeconomic status, and race/ethnicity.

The Pell Institute & PennAHEAD / May 2020
Exploring the Organizational Value of Integrated Transition Programs

This article explores the organizational value of integrated transition programs across several institutions.

Journal of Student Affairs Research & Practice / May 2020
two males on computer
Revisiting the dimensionality of subjective task value

The purpose of this study was to examine competing multidimensional factor structures by comparing correlated factor, hierarchical, and bifactor representations of both confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) models across three theoretical conceptualizations of subjective task value.

Contemporary Educational Psychology / May 2020
Faculty support and student engagement in undergraduate engineering

This study investigated how behavioral and emotional forms of engagement are associated with faculty support and student-faculty interactions among engineering students.

Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning / May 2020
The Intragenerational Transmission of Educational Advantage

The author draws on social capital theory and hypothesizes that when youths attend college, they increase the probability that their siblings attend college. The author further hypothesizes that this effect is strongest among youths whose parents do not have college degrees.

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World / May 2020
Academic and Social Expectations of Incoming College Students

This article examines the mindset of incoming college students, with particular focus on their beliefs about their intelligence, need for cognition, and goal orientation in both the academic and social domains.

The Journal of College Orientation, Transition, and Retention / May 2020
three students studying in libary
On Worthiness, Knowledge Curation, and Diversifying OER

This project takes a crowdsourcing approach to diversify OpenStax Psychology (OpenStax College, 2014), an Open Educational Resource (OER) for Introductory Psychology courses.

Journal of Interactive Media in Education / May 2020
Field courses narrow demographic achievement gaps

This study compared the relationships among academic success measures and demographic data for UC Santa Cruz undergraduate students admitted between 2008 and 2019 who participated in field courses and who did not.

Ecology & Evolution / May 2020
Exploring the Research and Library Needs of Student-Parents

The objective of this study was to explore the research services and library spaces student-parents need to thrive in higher education settings.

College & Research Libraries / May 2020
The relationship between campus recreation facility use and retention

This study examines the relationship between campus recreation facility access and first-year retention of full-time, first-time undergraduate students at a public university for 2014–2015 through 2016–2017.

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice / May 2020
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Results From A National Financial Aid Jargon Survey

This study assessed prospective first-generation college students' knowledge of federal student aid.

College Student Affairs Journal / May 2020
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Residential Environments and First-Gen Belongingness

This study utilized regression analysis supplemented by an analysis of open-ended responses to explore belongingness among first-generation students in residential spaces using Strayhorn's (2012) sense of belonging model.

College Student Affairs Journal / May 2020
UCLA student group
Narratives of first-generation, Latinx, adult graduate students

This study explores the narratives of first-generation, Latinx graduate students whose parents emigrated from Mexico.

Journal of Adult & Continuing Education / May 2020
A Fiber Diet Intervention in a CURE Course

The authors aimed to improve scientific training by engaging students enrolled in an upper division elective course in a human microbiome course-based undegraduate research experience (CURE).

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education / April 2020
students in classroom standing with teacher
Incorporating Innovative Pedagogies into Accounting Curriculum

An accounting lab employing simulations and games was developed and implemented as a means of improving student learning outcomes and knowledge retention for Principles of Financial Accounting.

Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice / April 2020
Mission Critical: Championing First-generation Student Success

Dr. Sarah E. Whitley, Executive Director of the Center for First-generation Student Success, discusses efforts to celebrate and support this unique student population.

Sarah E. Whitley / April 2020