Full Description
This book explores how first-generation college students negotiate the culture of higher education through an embrace of their multiple identities. Featuring contributors with multiple experiences and identities, this volume attempts to shed light on the creative approaches first-generation students use to succeed in college as well as help broaden the vision of the institutions they choose to call their intellectual home. In doing so, this text argues that higher education institutions can and should factor the experiences and insights of first-generation students into the ongoing process of revitalizing their mission. This resource will appeal to scholars, researchers, and upper-level students with interests in higher education, cultural studies, philosophy of education, decolonial studies, and social mobility.
Contents
1. Introduction: The Strengths and Assets of First-Generation Students: Our Future Path Forward 2. Negotiating the First-Generation Student Identity in Higher Education 3. The First-Gen Experience and Institutional Identity 4. Devising Educational Interventions to Support First-Generation Students' Learning Experiences in Their Business Education in the United States 5. "I don't have to hate you yet": Intersecting Identities of Mixed-Race Experience and Low-Income Backgrounds 6. Research, Practice, and Intersectionality: Reflexive Insights on Working with and for First-Generation Students 7. Rethinking First-Generation Student Engagement in the Higher Education Experience 8. Rethinking Social Mobility: Why We Don't Talk About It But Need To! 9. Stories from First-Generation Students and Their Experiences with Student Services
