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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"First Generation and Low Income"”.
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The Effect of a Student Support Services Program on Academic Success at an Appalachian Comprehensive University
… Kentucky University, on academic success for first-generation and low-income college students. An archival database was used to identify differences in the level of academic success among first-year students in the NOVA program from fall-to-fall of their freshmen year compared to non-NOVA …
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Faring better or worse: A quantitative analysis of student success outcomes of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program at Eastern Michigan University
<p>Intergenerational poverty is a problem of immense concern within the African American community, where approximately 32% of children under the age of 18 reside in impoverished conditions. Although acquisition of a college degree is the sole determining factor most influential for social mobility …
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The Vigor of Creative Materialism: Making the Hidden Stories of Underrepresented Engineering Students Visible
… The proportion of women, BIPOC, LGBTQA+, low-income, first-generation, and disabled students in engineering education remains below national population levels. The culture of engineering is a barrier to increasing participation in engineering for students from these communities. The …
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The Adjustment of First Year African American Women to Predominately White Institutions: Implications for Best Practices
<p>Currently, both scholarly literature and educational practice are lacking depth and scope about the lived experience of African American (AA) female students, and, as a result, they lack effectiveness for this population of students. In particular, they do not address the varying ways AA female …