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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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Acknowledging impressions of writing center services

This article analyzes the results of a spring 2019 survey of Georgia Tech undergraduates on their understandings and impressions of the services that the Georgia Tech Communication Center provides and the students the center sees most frequently.

Praxis: A Writing Center Journal / August 2020
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
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A Path Analysis of the Role of First-Gen Status and Engagement

The purpose of this study was to assess these relationships via path analysis using a large, cross-sectional dataset.

PsyArXiv / August 2020
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A Title V Center as a Counterspace for URM and First-Gen Students

This study examined a Title V Student Center within a Hispanic Serving Institution and how it acted as a counterspace for undergraduate students.

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education / 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
Underrepresented minority librarians flexing their service muscles

This article illustrates ways through which minority librarians can exert leadership and leverage their multitudinous identities, interests, and passions to make a difference.

The Journal of Academic Librarianship / August 2020
Creating a math placement experience with an asset-based approach

In this article, growth mindset was used as an asset-based framework to examine how eight first-generation, low-income, students of color perceive their math placement experience.

PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies / August 2020
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Expectations of Students Participating in Voluntary Peer Coaching

This study was conducted for two purposes: to describe the demographics of students who register to participate in a peer mentoring program and to explore the primary goal(s) that participants hoped to accomplish through their academic coaching experience.

Journal of College Reading and Learning / August 2020
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Unpaid vs. Paid Internships: Group Membership Makes the Difference

The authors were interested to understand whether women and other underserved groups were more or less likely to participate in paid or unpaid internships in college compared with their peers.

Journal of College Student Development / August 2020
Psychosociocultural correlates of well-being

This is an ethnic-, gender-, and generation-specific study, in which the psychosociocultural correlates of well-being for 129 second-generation Chinese American undergraduate females were examined.

Asian American Journal of Psychology / August 2020
A Qualitative Exploration of Experiences of First-Generation Students

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate first-generation students’ perceptions of how their lived experiences have impacted their academic and non-academic success.

Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges / August 2020
Testing a Growth Mindset Intervention for College Student Success

The current study tested the efficacy of a growth mindset intervention at a university with a diverse student population.

Basic and Applied Social Psychology / August 2020
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Moving on up: ‘first in family’ university graduates in England

This paper provides the first quantitative analysis on ‘first in family’ (FiF) university graduates in the UK.

Oxford Review of Education / 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
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An Analysis of the Major Field Test for Business Performance

This study used a set of predictor variables to explain the ETS MFT-B performance at the subject HBCU

Journal of Educational Research & Practice / August 2020
First-Gen Students’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This report details the negative impacts of COVID-19 on first-gen students at large public research universities.

SERU Consortium / August 2020
Undergrad Students of Color Communal Uplift and College Promotion

This critical qualitative study examines the ways first-generation Students of Color at two predominantly White institutions in the Midwest activate their college knowledge, or cultural capital, to assist youth from their communities in viewing higher education as a viable option.

The Review of Higher Education / August 2020
Understanding first-gen engineering students’ entry and persistence

This multi-institution study qualitatively characterizes how the various people (alters) in students’ social networks provide expressive and instrumental social capital that helps students decide to enter and then to persist in undergraduate engineering majors.

International Journal of STEM Education / August 2020