The First Generation Student Experience : Implications for Campus Practice, and Strategies for Improving Persistence and Success
by
Jeff Davis
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
An ACPA Co-Publication
ISBN-10
1579223702
ISBN-13
9781579223700
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Stylus Publishing
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 17th, 2010
Print length
214 Pages
Weight
312 grams
Product Classification:
Students & student organisationsHigher & further education, tertiary education
Ksh 7,550.00
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This book provides high-level administrators with a plan of action for deans to create the awareness necessary for meaningful long-term change, sets out a campus acclimation process, and provides guidelines for the necessary support structures.
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More first-generation students are attending college than ever before, and policy makers agree that increasing their participation in higher education is a matter of priority.
Despite this, there is no agreed definition about the term, few institutions can quantify how many first-generation students are enrolled, or mistakenly conflate them with low-income students, and many important dimensions to the first-generation student experience remain poorly documented. Few institutions have in place a clear, well-articulated practice for assisting first-generation students to succeed.
Given that first-generation students comprise over 40% of incoming freshmen, increasing their retention and graduation rates can dramatically increase an institutions overall retention and graduation rates, and enhance its image and desirability.
It is clearly in every institutions self-interest to ensure its first-generation students succeed, to identify and count them, and understand how to support them. This book provides high-level administrators with a plan of action for deans to create the awareness necessary for meaningful long-term change, sets out a campus acclimation process, and provides guidelines for the necessary support structures.
At the heart of the book are 14 first-person narratives by first-generation students spanning freshman to graduate years that help the reader get to grips with the variety of ethnic and economic categories to which they belong. The book concludes by defining 14 key issues that institutions need to address, and offers a course of action for addressing them.
This book is intended for everyone who serves these students faculty, academic advisors, counselors, student affairs professionals, admissions officers, and administrators and offers a set of best practices for how two- and four-year institutions can improve the success of their first-generation student populations.
An ACPA Publication
More first-generation students are attending college than ever before, and policy makers agree that increasing their participation in higher education is a matter of priority.
Despite this, there is no agreed definition about the term, few institutions can quantify how many first-generation students are enrolled, or mistakenly conflate them with low-income students, and many important dimensions to the first-generation student experience remain poorly documented. Few institutions have in place a clear, well-articulated practice for assisting first-generation students to succeed.
Given that first-generation students comprise over 40% of incoming freshmen, increasing their retention and graduation rates can dramatically increase an institutions overall retention and graduation rates, and enhance its image and desirability.
It is clearly in every institutions self-interest to ensure its first-generation students succeed, to identify and count them, and understand how to support them. This book provides high-level administrators with a plan of action for deans to create the awareness necessary for meaningful long-term change, sets out a campus acclimation process, and provides guidelines for the necessary support structures.
At the heart of the book are 14 first-person narratives by first-generation students spanning freshman to graduate years that help the reader get to grips with the variety of ethnic and economic categories to which they belong. The book concludes by defining 14 key issues that institutions need to address, and offers a course of action for addressing them.
This book is intended for everyone who serves these students faculty, academic advisors, counselors, student affairs professionals, admissions officers, and administrators and offers a set of best practices for how two- and four-year institutions can improve the success of their first-generation student populations.
An ACPA Publication
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