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Faculty and First-Generation College Students: Bridging the Classroom Gap Together
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Gain a greater understanding of the academic, cultural, and social experiences of first-generation college students (FGS). Fascinating, heart-touching, and important, the research and the stories presented here enlighten what FGS often have to overcome to successfully complete their degrees.
With an emphasis on improving FGS' college success, retention, and graduation rates, this volume first covers common obstacles and the trend of FGS continuing on for graduate degrees. Section Two discusses the complex interplay of social, academic, emotional, and financial influences on academic performance. The chapters collectively affirm that the commitment of university resources is critical to college success.
This is the 127th volume of the Jossey-Bass higher education quarterly report New Directions for Teaching and Learning , which offers a comprehensive range of ideas and techniques for improving college teaching based on the experience of seasoned instructors and the latest findings of educational and psychological researchers.
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| Title of eBook: Faculty and First-Generation College Students: Bridging the Classroom Gap Together | |
| Release Date: 09-26-2011 | |
| Publisher: Jossey-Bass |
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Faculty and First-Generation College Students: Bridging the Classroom Gap Together
Chapter One
First-generation college students (FGS) often straddle different cultures between school and home. Because of this cultural disparity, FGS frequently encounter barriers to academic success and require additional support resources on campus. Simply offering more financial aid does not address the cultural and emotional challenges that these students experience. The volume's coeditors draw on their own first-generation college experiences to assert the necessity of this volume to assist college and university administrators, faculty, and staff who frequently work with FGS.
Introduction: Shall We Gather in the Classroom?
Teresa Heinz Housel, Vickie L. Harvey
In early 2008, Vanessa Greene, head of multicultural education at Hope College, and I (Teresa Housel) created a new program to mentor first-generation college students (FGS), whose parents do not have a bachelor's or an associate degree. We created the program out of the recognition that FGS encounter academic, cultural, emotional, and financial difficulties when attending college. FGS are an increasing student population at a time when employers are demanding a college degree even for an interview in an ever-tightening economy. According to a 2007 study by the University of California-Los Angeles's Higher Education Research Institute, nearly one in six freshmen at American four-year institutions are first-generation (Saenz and others, 2007). First-generation college students comprise a small demographic of our college's applicant pool, but their numbers are increasing as our institution expands its multicultural diversity program.
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