First-Generation Students in Postsecondary Education: A Look at Their College Transcripts

By Xianglei Chen. 2005

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First-generation students: what we ask, what we know and what it means: an international review of the state of research (2013, background): “In contrast, they are over-represented in business subjects and health sciences (Chen, 2005).”
Stories as Knowledge: Bringing the Lived Experience of First-Generation College Students Into the Academy (2010, background): “Unlike students whose parents attended college, first-generation students are more likely to be students of color, immigrants, student-parents, low-income, and above the age of 24 (Chen, 2005).”
The Impact of Developmental Education on Community College Persistence and Vertical Transfer (2014, background): “Furthermore, results demonstrate that students who are classified as first-generation college students are more likely to enroll in developmental coursework (Chen, 2005; Nuñez & Cuccaro-Alamin, 1998).”
The Impact of Faculty and Staff on High-Risk College Student Persistence (2011, background): “African American and Latina/o student graduation rates lag 16 to 25 percentage points below the rates of Asian Americans and European Americans (Chen, 2005).”
What Matters to Student Success: A Review of the Literature (2006, background): “As noted earlier, firstgeneration students are less likely to graduate because they earn fewer credits in their first year, take more remedial courses, are more likely to repeat courses, tend to major in vocational and technical fields, are less likely to choose a major in the first year of college ”
Desafíos y Bendiciones (2012, background): “, 2004), twice as likely to leave college without a degree (Chen, 2005), and less likely to continue onto graduate school (Engle, 2007; Hurtado et al.”
Underserved and Unprepared: Postsecondary Learning Disabilities (2007, background): “Recently, the U.S. Department of Education (2005) issued a news report suggesting that, while postsecondary programs modiﬁed to suit the diversity of students attending them is essential for transition, high school reform is the foundation for later academic success.”
First-Generation and Continuing-Generation College Students: A Comparison of High School and Postsecondary Experiences. Stats in Brief. NCES 2018-009. (2017, methodology): “3 Consistent with prior research, in this brief, first-generation college students are defined as students whose parents both have had no postsecondary education experience and have a high school education or a lower level of educational attainment (Ishitani 2006; Chen 2005).”