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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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Black males navigating the college decision making process

A qualitative study (interpretive phenomenological analysis [IPA]) was conducted using a strengths-based perspective to understand the experiences of three first-generation black men college students attending a predominately white institution.

Journal for Multicultural Education / April 2020
Latino/a First Gen College Students’ Influence on Younger Siblings

This study explores how older siblings influence their younger siblings’ education trajectory including primary, secondary, and post-secondary education.

SocArXiv / April 2020
Strategies to Foster LatinX Inclusion in Microbiology Programs

The author shares frameworks and strategies to foster inclusion in Microbiology departments.

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education / April 2020
Improving Undergraduate Biology Courses to Increase Retention

This study examined variables most likely to lead to retention, such as increased achievement, improved attitudes, and self-efficacy beliefs, through participation in active learning and real-world research experiences in an introductory biology course.

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education / April 2020
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A Critical Quantitative Analysis of Students’ Sense of Belonging

This study examined institutional environments that contributed to belongingness, especially for students from different racial groups, college generation statuses, and the intersection of both.

Journal of College Student Development / April 2020
Hidden Crisis on College Campuses
How Students Engage in Meaning Making About Their Social Class

In this study, the author explored how working-class students make meaning of their social class identity at public research institutions.

Journal of College Student Development / April 2020
The Role of Mentorship in the Evolution from Student to Professor

This chapter will provide an overview of the role of mentorship in the processes of completing a PhD and beginning a tenure-track academic position.

Harris-Pierre / April 2020
group of diverse students standing
Toward a nuanced understanding of first-generation students

This study details a new continuum that better captures how students are differentially positioned in social space, and identify three clusters based on their capacity to mobilise capital.

Educational Review / April 2020
Undergraduate Student Success and Library Use

The authors explored how libraries affect student success via two approaches in this multimethod study: 1) through individual student interviews to capture the student voice; and 2) through hierarchical linear and logistic modeling of institutional data to capture the institutional perspective.

University Libraries Faculty Publications / April 2020
Predictors of close faculty−student relationships in higher education

The current study sought to explore factors that promote or impede the formation of positive mentor–student relationships during college using a large, nationally representative sample of 5,684 college graduates from the Gallup–Purdue Index.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences / April 2020
High-Achieving First-Generation Latino Community College Students

This study discusses the process by which high-achieving Latino students make college choices.

Gonzalez / April 2020
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BEST PRACTICES IN ONLINE LEARNING FOR AT-RISK STUDENTS

In this report, Hanover Research evaluates best practices for supporting students in an online learning environment.

Hanover Research / April 2020
Colorado first-gen students
Navigating Belonging in Higher Ed While First Gen and Nonbinary

Through this narrative, the author seeks to unpack potential difficulties and nuances for the increasingly diverse body of first generation students and bring attention to the barriers in our social systems which may be blocking current and future students from achieving their full potential.

The Vermont Connection / April 2020
Creating a More Equitable CS Course through Peer-Tutoring

This paper describes the effects of a newly implemented peer-tutoring program at Humboldt State University.

The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges / April 2020
UCSF First-gen Student Health 2
Exploring Graduate Student Persistence to Completion in South Africa

This study adopted a constructivist approach to explore the phenomenon of persistence to completion in a Master of Public Health programme in South Africa.

African Journal of Health Professions Education / March 2020
college grad and parents
How First-Generation Students Make Meaning of Constructions of Self

This study sought to understand how students make meaning of their first-generation status by conducting a series of focus groups.

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice / March 2020
Rethinking Financial Aid
Financial Anxiety Among College Students

This article examines the predictors of financial anxiety, including generational status, using the Roy Adaptation Model and ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis on data from a large, Midwestern public university.

Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning / March 2020
teacher smiling at students
Can Summer Philosophy Programs Help Close the Achievement Gap?

This contribution highlights the connections between summer experiences and the overall achievement gap, while identifying specific practices shown to yield successful summer programs.

Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice / March 2020