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1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 221 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
First-generation college students -- United States.
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First-generation college students. |
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United States. |
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Academic achievement -- United States.
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Academic achievement. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davis, Jeff, 1959 June 5- First-generation student experience. 1st ed. Sterling, Va : Stylus, ©2010 9781579223700 (DLC) 2009042324 (OCoLC)456551435 |
| ISBN |
9781441658654 (electronic book) |
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1441658653 (electronic book) |
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9781579225254 (e-book) |
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157922525X (e-book) |
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9781579223694 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781579223700 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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