Being a First-Generation College Student
Words: 1356 Pages: 5 2369Introduction First-generation college students are those individuals whose parents did not attend a college or university and therefore have no prior formal exposure to the expectations, practices, and culture of higher education. While serving as a critical and growing component of the higher education student population, first-generation students are demographically situated in ways suggesting particular interests and needed support considerations. Most prominent among these is that students from first-generation families disproportionately come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and are racially and […]
