The first-generation student experience: implications for campus practice, and strategies for improving persistence and success
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Main Author: Davis, Jeff (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Sterling, Va Stylus ©2010
Edition:1st ed
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Given that first-generation students comprise over 40% of incoming freshmen, increasing their retention and graduation rates can dramatically increase an institution's overall retention and graduation rates. This book provides administrators with a plan of action to create the awareness necessary for meaningful long-term change, sets out a campus acclimation process, and provides guidelines for the necessary support structures. First-person narratives by first-generation students help the reader get to grips with the variety of ethnic and economic categories to which they belong. The book conc
Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 HOW MANY FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE THERE?; Definitions; Counting First-Generation College Students; How Institutions Can Count Students; What the Data Show; First-Generation Student Status as a Proxy for Ethnicity; Counting the Institutions That Will Be Counting First-Generation Students; Now Is the Time for Action; Sonoma State University; Notes; 2 THE OBSERVABLE BEHAVIORS OF FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS; Learning the Culture of College; First-Generation Status Is Not the Same as Low-Income Status; Section One: Learning at College
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 221 pages)
ISBN:1441658653
157922525X
9781441658654
9781579225254

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