The first-generation student experience :: implications for campus practice, and strategies for improving persistence and success /

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 necessa...

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1. Verfasser: Davis, Jeff, 1959 June 5- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Sterling, Va : Stylus, 2010.
Ausgabe:1st ed.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 221 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781441658654
1441658653
9781579225254
157922525X

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