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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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A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum

This comprehensive survival guide for grad school outlines the secret knowledge and skills that are essential for navigating every critical stage of the postgraduate experience.

Calarco / August 2020
Mapping the Diverse Experiences of First-generation Students

This book draws on interview and survey data to expand the understanding of first-gen students' campus lives and opportunities for mobility through the application of an intersectional lens.

Benson & Lee / August 2020
Factors Influencing First-gen Students' IT Career Choice

This qualitative research adopts social capital theory as a sensitizing framework for understanding the influences and the resources valued by the minority FGS in their career choice decisions.

2020 Americas Conference on Information Systems / August 2020
Academic Library Services for First-Generation Students

Presenting strategies for improving academic library services for first-gen students, this timely book focuses on programs and services that will increase student academic engagement and success.

Arch & Gilman / July 2020
Effect of a Place-Based Learning Community on First-Year Students

The authors combined tenets of learning communities and place-based learning to develop an innovative first-year program for STEM students.

Innovative Higher Education / July 2020
Multiculturalism Reduces the Racial Achievement Gap

The authors tested whether a multicultural ideology intervention could improve URM students’ grade point averages during the first 2 years of college and thereby reduce the racial achievement gap.

Social Psychological and Personality Science / July 2020
Students Studying at a Table
Linking Decent Work With Academic Engagement and Satisfaction

Links between decent work and academic outcomes among a sample of first-gen college students were examined based on Psychology of Working Theory (PWT).

Journal of Career Assessment / July 2020
Financial Challenges and First-year Students' Subjective Well‑being

This article investigates the levels and changes in the subjective well-being (SWB) of successive groups of first‑year students at a comprehensive university in South Africa between 2014 and 2017.

Journal of Student Affairs in Africa / July 2020
Investigation of First‑year Learning Experiences in South Africa

This study investigated the first‑year experiences (FYE) of students in a South African university.

Journal of Student Affairs in Africa / July 2020
American Association of Community Colleges Fast Facts 2020

This report features the latest data on community colleges from the primary advocacy organization for community colleges in the US.

American Association of Community Colleges / July 2020
Latinos in Higher Education: Compilation of Fast Facts

This compilation includes fact sheets covering Excelencia in Education's four policy priorities: affordability, institutional capacity, retention and transfer, and workforce preparation.

Excelencia in Education / July 2020
A Guidebook for Navigating Data to Promote Student Success

This free tool is designed to help institutions build a culture of data-informed inquiry to increase student success.

Institute for Higher Education Policy / July 2020
Career Counselors Self-Disclosing to First-gen Students

The purpose of this grounded theory study was to examine how career counselors who had been the first in their families to go to college use their personal experience to support current FGCS.

Journal of Career Development / July 2020
Postsecondary Strategies that Enhance Underserved Student Success

This report highlights how five colleges and universities are supporting low-income and Black students so they graduate with less debt.

St. Louis Graduates / July 2020
A customized belonging intervention improves student retention

This study evaluated a randomized intervention aimed at bolstering first-year students’ sense of belonging at a broad-access university.

Science Advances / July 2020
Student Success Centers in Nursing Education: A Case Study

This study examines the impact of a student success center at an academic health science center on diverse student nurse performance.

Journal of Nursing Education / June 2020
Student at laptop with teacher
Cultural Guides and the Transition from High School to College

This article argues that educational institutions can transmit cultural capital in the form of help-seeking dispositions and specialized knowledge that can positively impact students’ academic outcomes.

Social Problems / June 2020
Working through the experiences of first-generation students of color

This qualitative study investigates how first-generation undergraduate students of Color at a historically white institution in the U.S. make sense of and process the university’s mission, especially in relation to the theoretical frameworks of intersectionality and post-subjectivity.

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education / June 2020