"It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population," Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year col
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A flagship university in the South, the school graduates just 16 percent of its first-generation students, despite its overall graduation rate of 71 percent.
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Chelsea Jones, who now directs student programming at I'm first, was a first-generation college student at Howard.
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Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.
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When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student and Jamaican immigrant, he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education.
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higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number — not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.
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Howard, a well-regarded historically black college, had an array of resources for its first-generation students, including matching kids with counselors,connecting first-generation students to one another, and TriO, a national program that supported 200 s
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like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.
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Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans: first-generation college students who enter school unprepared or behind.
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Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.
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Students are placed in small groups with counselors trained seniors on campus; they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity(联系) groups, tutoring centers and also have a summer orientation specifically for first-generation students.
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Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years 81 percent.
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Because US colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect students' educational experiences, many first-generation students lack insight about why they are struggling and do not understand how students like them can improve.
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But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach can close 63 percent of the achievement gap between first-generation and other students.
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For years,studies have found that first-generation college students—those who do not have a parent with a college degree—lag other students on a range of education achievement factors.
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Many first-generation students "struggle to navigate the middle-class culture of higher education, learn the 'rules of the game, 'and take advantage of college resources," they write.
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Most of the first-generation students were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degree.
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Their thesis 一 that a relatively modest intervention could have a big impact 一 was based on the view that first-generation students may be most lacking not in potential but in practical knowledge about how to deal with the issues that face most college st
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This has created "a paradox" in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has "continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close" an achievement gap based on social class, according to th
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