The First Generation Student Experience : Implications for Campus Practice, and Strategies for Improving Persistence and Success

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Jeff, 1959 June 5-

Series:

An ACPA Publication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic achievement--United States.

EDUCATION--Higher.

First-generation college students--United States.

First-generation college students.

Academic achievement.

Local Subjects:

Academic achievement--United States.

EDUCATION--Higher.

First-generation college students--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sterling : Stylus Publishing, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Precollege PreparationBeing Underprepared at College; Learning How to Study; Different Way of Learning; New Way of Perceiving the World; Learning About Majors; Section Two: Campus Presence; The Imposter Phenomenon; Differences in the Classroom; Alternative Ways of Support; Validating the Presence of First-Generation Students; 3 THE INTERNAL PSYCHOLOGY OF FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS; Section One: An Extended Campus Acclimation Process; The Existential Question About College Attendance; The Existential Question and Low-Income Status; Developing a College-Student Identity

Engagement With Physical SpaceCampus Size; Blending In; Section Two: The Importance and Impact of Personal Relationships; Family Relationships; Family Mythologies About College; Faculty Relationships; Nonfaculty Professional Relationships; Peer Relationships and Role Models; 4 IN THEIR OWN WORDS; Narrative One: Rosa Avila; Narrative Two: Crystal Halverson; Narrative Three: Calvin Knight; Narrative Four: Maria Bravos; Narrative Five: Erica Camacho; Narrative Six: Jessica Gomez; Narrative Seven: Jeff Peterson; Narrative Eight: Anna Gutierrez; Narrative Nine: John Hunter

Narrative Ten: Natalie JimenezNarrative Eleven: Carlos Sosa; Narrative Twelve: Yolanda Ortiz; Narrative Thirteen: Elizabeth Ordaz; Narrative Fourteen: Phillip Hammer; 5 NARRATIVE ANALYSIS; Narratives One-Three: Avila, Halverson, and Knight; Narratives Four-Seven: Bravos, Camacho, Gomez, and Peterson; Narratives Eight-Eleven: Gutierrez, Hunter, Jimenez, and Sosa; Narratives Twelve-Fourteen: Ortiz, Ordaz, and Hammer; 6 RECOMMENDATIONS; Section One: Learning at College; Issue 1; Issue 2; Issue 3; Issue 4; Section Two: Campus Presence; Issue 5; Issue 6; Issue 7

Section Three: An Extended Campus Acclimation ProcessIssue 8; Issue 9; Issue 10; Issue 11; Section Four: The Importance and Impact of Personal Relationships; Issue 12; Issue 13; Issue 14; Conclusion; References; About the Author; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-00-344780-5

1-000-97567-3

1-57922-525-X

OCLC:

646816213