First-Generation Resources

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Resources and articles suggested by the First-Generation Student Advising Interest Group

• Aiding First-Generation Students via Inside Higher Education
• Bridging the Gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first-generation students 2001 and 2009 reports
• Confessions of a Greek Gun-Runner's Grandson
• First-Generation Students: Undergraduates Whose Parents Never Enrolled in Postsecondary Education via the National Center for Educational Statistics
• First-Generation Literature Review via Texas Tech
• FirstInTheFamily.org Advice about college
• Special Analysis 2001 : Students Whose Parents Did Not Go to College: Postsecondary Access, Persistence, and Attainment via the National Center for Education Statistics
• Supporting and retaining first-generation students via Texas Tech
• Using the SIQ to Identify Characteristics of First Generation Students at ISU via Indiana State University

TRiO Program Web sites

• Colorado State University
• Northern Arizona University History of TRiO programs
• Texas Tech PEGASUS program
• University of Texas at San Antonio
• University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Articles

• Advising First-Year Students
• Bridging Academics and Student Affairs to Advance Student Success: Freshmen Academies at Queensborough Community College via AAC&U
• College Drop Out Boom via the NY Times
• Faces of the Future: A Portrait of First-Generation Community College Students
• First Generation Challenges
• First generation film
• First-Generation Students in Higher Education: A Look at Their Transcripts. NCES report
• New Ontario school for those whose parents didn't attend postsecondary via University Affairs
• Preparing first-generation students for academic success via Academic Impressions
• Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University Pell Institute report
• Reaching Out to Students in Foster Care
• Recruiting and admitting first-generation students via Academic Impressions

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