Widening higher education participation has resulted in efforts directed towards increasing
higher education access. However, inequality in higher education completion continues to …

In the course of educational expansion, student populations have become more diverse.
This paper represents an international literature review on the topic of first-generation …

While college education is a key to upward mobility, low-income students are substantially
less likely to earn bachelor's degrees than their more economically advantaged peers. Prior …

Ensuring success in public higher education among underrepresented students is integral to
social equity in the United States today. The current research contextualizes proximal and …

Background The higher education literature is replete with deficit-based studies of first-
generation college students. By thinking of students' social relationships as embedded …

College Belonging reveals how colleges' and universities' efforts to foster a sense of
belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard new students with the …

Drawing upon Bourdieu's theories of social and cultural capital, a number of studies of the
higher education environment have indicated that students who are first-in-family to come to …

This study investigates differences in academic engagement and retention between first-
generation and non-first-generation undergraduate students. Utilizing the Student …

The fact that 1st‐generation college students have lower retention rates than their peers and
confront barriers hindering college success is well known. However, less information exists …

The majority of empirical literature on first generation college students (FGCSs) in the US
asserts that because their parents did not attend college, FGCSs are lacking important …