Download or read book Resiliency and the Successful First generation Community College Student written by Condoa M. Parrent and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Internal Worlds of First Generation Community College Students written by Shaun Rowley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Generation College Students and Resiliency written by Nancy Komada and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resilience and Resistance How First Generation College Students Leverage Community Cultural Wealth and Social Capital to Successfully Transfer from a Community College to a Selective Four year Institution written by Christina Teller and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of how first generation college students leverage both traditional forms of social capital and community cultural wealth in the process of transferring from a California community college to a selective four-year institution, using a Critical Race Theory (CRT) paradigm, and a framework including Stanton-Salazar’s (1997) network analytic theory and Yosso’s (2005) community cultural wealth. The current study adds to the literature by critically analyzing the post-secondary education experiences of first generation community college transfer students, focusing on the students’ strengths and gaining a better understanding of what institutional and community based resources they drew on to successfully navigate the transfer pathway. This mixed methods study was situated at UC Berkeley and included 115 survey respondents and 15 individual interviews. All participants were first generation college students who had transferred to UC Berkeley from a California community college. Qualitative analysis was intentionally centered in this study in order to address elements of community cultural wealth that previous survey instruments have not adequately captured. Survey results are presented through descriptive analysis, drawing on a critical quantitative survey design. Findings show that students leveraged a variety of resources including institutionally based support through faculty, counselors and specialized support programs, and community based supports such as family, peers and students’ own online research to navigate the transfer pathway.
Download or read book First Generation Professionals in Higher Education written by Mary Blanchard Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-generation Professionals in Higher Education: Strategies for the World of Work explores complexities related to the transition from college/professional school to the work world of higher education, as well as the advancement from mid- to senior-level leadership, and how first-generation professionals navigate these transitions. Framing their chapters in the asset-based lens of cultural capital, the authors approach topics of navigating the field of higher education as first-generation professionals through personal experience as well as evidence-based approaches and strategies. Organized in three sections--Professional Identity, Purposeful Interaction, and Career Path--the book examines concepts such as imposter syndrome, politics, financial literacy, resilience, networking, mentoring, career progression, and more. Each chapter includes activities, exercises, and questions for reflection, offering readers an opportunity to discern strategies for their own professional development.
Download or read book Organisation und Planung der Produktion Allg T written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promoting Academic Resilience in Multicultural America written by Erik E. Morales and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoting Academic Resilience in Multicultural America combines biographical sketches of resilient students, examples of effective programs designed to encourage resilience, recent research in the field, and their own experiences of resilient academics of color. The book illustrates exactly how academic success occurs within traditionally challenged learning environments. The authors focus most closely on the crucial transition between high school and college. The individuals spotlighted and programs outlined cross racial, gender, socioeconomic, and ethnic lines, and include African American, Hispanic, and white students. In part, the authors conclude that there are specific multidimensional protective factors that work collaboratively to enable the success of these exceptional students. It is the detailed exploration of these phenomena that lie at the heart of this work and that has the potential to help all children excel. Among other uses, this book could be a valuable addition to a college freshmen seminar series, a foundations of education course, a course on multiculturalism in America and/or any course focused on basic educational psychology.
Download or read book Still They Rise written by D'Andra I. Mull and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The issue of the disproportionate number of African American students in the k-12 arena who fall short in their educational pursuits has been heavily discussed by educators who desire to uncover the reason for the disparity. Yet, most research on African American students merely provides a quantitative description of their shortcomings, and fails to provide comprehensive information that addresses causes for attrition and academic deficiency. Moreover, there is minimal literature and research that focuses on resiliency in African American undergraduate college students, and particularly first generation individuals, which is a great cause for concern as retention rates for the group fall far below those of the majority cohort. The purpose of this study was to explore and familiarize researchers and educators with the life experiences of selected first generation African American college students who have successfully completed three or more years of undergraduate studies, in spite of negative and detrimental factors and situations that appeared throughout their lifetime journeys. The study also shines light on how some students make meaning of their life's experiences and recognizes how different events have been of influence on their voyage to and now in, higher education. It is important to note that this study is phenomenological in nature, and thus, posed no theory at its inception, but sought to reveal the lived experiences of the participants, due to the reality that few studies have centered on African American college students and their stories of survival and success, particularly in their higher education endeavors. This study highlights how these students have utilized the protective factors of spirituality, educational institutions, the view of success as obligatory to the family and community, and self-regulation in their onward journey to educational attainment, each of which have enabled them to remain strong and focused even as a number of obstacles became apparent. Lastly, I compose strategies that serve to provide colleges and universities, and other vested parties with valuable information that serve to aid in the development of strategies, programs and initiatives that can be of impact on the retention rates for African American students.
Download or read book A Focus on Hope written by Erik E. Morales and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2011 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships between groups of protective factors are documented and explored. A Resilience Cycle theory, which was chronicled in previous works of the authors, is used as a framework to view essential elements of the students' academic success. Ultimately, the data and findings are used to propose practical suggestions for promoting academic resilience in at-risk youth nationwide. Furthermore, because one author specializes in education and the other in psychology, both of these disciplines are brought to bear on this crucial and understudied topic." -- from back cover.
Download or read book First Generation College Students written by Lee Ward and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS "…a concise, manageable, lucid summary of the best scholarship, practices, and future-oriented thinking about how to effectively recruit, educate, develop, retain, and ultimately graduate first-generation students." —from the foreword by JOHN N. GARDNER First-generation students are frequently marginalized on their campuses, treated with benign disregard, and placed at a competitive disadvantage because of their invisibility. While they include 51% of all undergraduates, or approximately 9.3 million students, they are less likely than their peers to earn degrees. Among students enrolled in two-year institutions, they are significantly less likely to persist into a second year. First-Generation College Students offers academic leaders and student affairs professionals a guide for understanding the special challenges and common barriers these students face and provides the necessary strategies for helping them transition through and graduate from their chosen institutions. Based in solid research, the authors describe best practices and include suggestions and techniques that can help leaders design and implement effective curricula, out-of-class learning experiences, and student support services, as well as develop strategic plans that address issues sure to arise in the future. The authors offer an analysis of first-generation student expectations for college life and academics and examine the powerful role cultural capital plays in shaping their experiences and socialization. Providing a template for other campuses, the book highlights programmatic initiatives at colleges around the county that effectively serve first-generation students and create a powerful learning environment for their success. First-Generation College Students provides a much-needed portrait of the cognitive, developmental, and social factors that affect the college-going experiences and retention rates of this growing population of college students.
Download or read book The First Generation Student Experience written by Jeff Davis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with 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 institution’s overall retention and graduation rates, and enhance its image and desirability. It is clearly in every institution’s 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
Download or read book When Grit Isn t Enough written by Linda F. Nathan and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines major myths informing American education and explores how educators can better serve students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or income Each year, as the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy (BAA), an urban high school that boasts a 94 percent college acceptance rate, Linda Nathan made a promise to the incoming freshmen: “All of you will graduate from high school and go on to college or a career.” After fourteen years at the helm, Nathan stepped down and took stock of her alumni: of those who went to college, a third dropped out. Feeling like she failed to fulfill her promise, Nathan reflected on ideas she and others have perpetuated about education: that college is for all, that hard work and determination are enough to get you through, that America is a land of equality. In When Grit Isn’t Enough, Nathan investigates five assumptions that inform our ideas about education today, revealing how these beliefs mask systemic inequity. Seeing a rift between these false promises and the lived experiences of her students, she argues that it is time for educators to face these uncomfortable issues head-on and explores how educators can better serve all students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or income. Drawing on the voices of BAA alumni whose stories provide a window through which to view urban education today, When Grit Isn’t Enough helps imagine greater purposes for schooling.
Download or read book First generation Students written by Anne-Marie Nuñez and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Latino Education Crisis written by Patricia C. Gandara and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation's largest and most rapidly growing minority group.
Download or read book Resilience in First Generation College Students written by Michael Anthony Boggess and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-generation college students, or college students whose parents have not attended college or have attended college but have not received a degree, are traditionally approached from a deficit model. The purpose of the current study is to explore the possible mediating effects of psychological resilience on the relationships between protective and risk factors and academic and psychological outcomes among first-generation college students. In the current study, a sample of 101 first-generation college students were recruited at Washington State University. Using a convenience-based sampling approach, participants were recruited from several on-campus programs that serve first-generation college students. Multiple path analyses were performed to test five hypotheses. The results indicated that (1) resilience mediated the relationship between perceived stress and psychological well-being (Hypothesis 1b), but not academic performance (Hypothesis 1a); (2) resilience mediated the relationship between perceived social support and academic performance (Hypothesis 2a) and psychological well-being (Hypothesis 2b); (3) resilience mediated the relationship between certain indicators of socioeconomic status (e.g., household income, mother education) and psychological well-being (Hypothesis 3b), but not academic performance (Hypothesis 3a); (4) resilience did not mediate the relationship between high school GPA and academic performance (Hypothesis 4a) or psychological well-being (Hypothesis 4b); (5) perceived stress and high school GPA had significant direct effects on academic performance (Hypothesis 5); and (6) perceived stress, perceived social support, income status, and high school GPA had significant direct effects on psychological well-being (Hypothesis 5). The implications for future research and practice on resilience and first-generation college students are discussed.
Download or read book Promoting Belonging Growth Mindset and Resilience to Foster Student Success written by Amy Baldwin and published by The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, growth mindset, resilience, and belonging have become popular topics for research and practice among college educators. The authors of this new volume deepen the conversation around these noncognitive factors that significantly impact student success. Along with offering support for the development of learning mindsets, this book contains strategies for faculty and staff to consider as they create initiatives, programs, and assessments for use in and outside the classroom. Informative features include: - Learning Mindset Stories, highlighting how students, faculty, and staff members dealt with issues related to belonging, growth mindset, and resilience; - Campus Conversations, providing questions for generating discussion among faculty, staff, and students on what institutions can do to incorporate learning mindsets with an eye toward student success; and - Next Steps, serving as a roadmap for implementing institutional change.
Download or read book From Risk to Resilience written by Vanden Thong and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-generation college students (FGCS) have more difficulty integrating into college and are less likely to complete their degrees successfully (Chen & Carroll, 2005; Choy, 2001; Gardner & Holley, 2011; Ward, Siegel, & Davenport, 2012). Despite the challenges, some FGCS succeed. To explore different factors that may contribute to their success, this study examined two strengths-based constructs, resilience and personal growth initiative, in FGCS attending a private university. The research uses a cross-sectional study involving an online survey to collect data and detect differences that may exist between FGCS and non-first-generation college students (NonFGCS) across different academic classifications. The survey incorporates 75 items from the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), Child and Youth Resilience Measure-28 (CYRM-28), Personal Growth Initiative Scale-II (PGIS-II), and a demographics questionnaire. Participants include a sample population of 205 students (95 FGCS and 110 NonFGCS). Descriptive analyses and two-way ANOVAs are performed to examine scores from the CD-RISC, CYRM-28, and PGIS-II. Findings revealed that a greater number of FGCS are in minority groups than NonFGCS. In addition, trends for the estimated annual income between FGCS and NonFGCS travel in opposite directions since the number of FGCS decrease as the number of NonFGCS increase. Statistical analysis reveals a significant difference between FGCS and NonFGCS for the CYRM-28 but not for the CD-RISC or PGIS-II. The researcher discusses the findings of this study and their implications.
