The first-generation student experience : implications for campus practice, and strategies for improving persistence and success

The first-generation student experience : implications for campus practice, and strategies for improving persistence and success / Jeff Davis.

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 necessa...

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Main Author: Davis, Jeff, 1959 June 5- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sterling, Va : Stylus, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
First-generation college students > United States.
Academic achievement > United States.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Academic achievement
First-generation college students
United States
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 221 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781441658654
1441658653
9781579225254
157922525X

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