Retention of Students from First Generation and Low Income Backgrounds.

By P. Thayer. 2000

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Predictors of First-Year Student Retention in the Community College (2008, background): “Finally, the education level of parents of community college students differs from that of university students: “First-generation students tend to be more concentrated in two-year colleges” (Thayer, 2000, p. 3). Thayer (2000) further notes that first-generation students tend to have lower retention ”
An Understanding of the Improved Grades, Retention and Graduation Rates of STEM Majors at the Academic Investment in Math and Science (AIMS) Program of Bowling Green State University (BGSU) (2007, background): “…opportunities for minorities and women who traditionally have been excluded from STEM areas (Congressional Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Development, 2000; Gandara, 2001; National Science Foundation, 2002; Thayer, 2000; Trower, 2002) 4.”
First-Generation Student Success: The Role of Faculty Interaction in Service Learning Courses (2008, background): “Moreover, the likelihood that these students will persist in school (Nunez & Cuccaro-Alamin, 1998), and that they will be retained and complete their degree (Thayer, 2000) is lower than their nonfirst-generation counterparts (Tym, McMillion, Barone, & Webster, 2004).”
Integration , Motivation , Strengths and Optimism : Retention Theories Past , Present and Future (2012, background): “Their work found that student academic performance expectancies predicted cumulative GPA at the end of the first year of college.”