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Bibliographies

NASPA Center for First-Generation Student Success: 2008 - 2019 Annotated Bibliography

NASPA Center for First Generation Student Success research repository. Includes books, articles, and reports on first gen student success and related topics. 

Selected Articles

Cataldi, E., Bennett, C., and Chen, X. (2018). First-Generation students: College Access, Persistence, and Postbachelor's Outcomes

Means, & Pyne, K. B. (2017). Finding My Way: Perceptions of Institutional Support and Belonging in Low-Income, First-Generation, First-Year College StudentsJournal of College Student Development58(6), 907–924. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2017.0071

NASPA Center for First-Generation Student Success. (2018). First-Generation Student Success: A Landscape Analysis of Programs and Services at Four-Year Institutions

Pratt, Harwood, H. B., Cavazos, J. T., & Ditzfeld, C. P. (2019). Should I Stay or Should I Go? Retention in First-Generation College Students. Journal of College Student Retention : Research, Theory & Practice, 21(1), 105–118. https://doi.org/10.1177/1521025117690868

Redford, & Hoyer, K. M. (2017). First-generation and continuing-generation college students : a comparison of high school and postsecondary experiences. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics.

More articles on first generation college students from WKU Libraries.