Driven to Achieve: First-Generation Students' Narrated Experience at a Private Christian College
This qualitative study examined the narrated experiences around the college choice and persistence of junior and senior first-generation students attending a private Christian college. Using interviews and focus groups, the author identified three key factors that emerged from the data: faculty, fai...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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Christian higher education
Year: 2009, Volume: 8, Issue: 3, Pages: 225-254 |
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| Summary: | This qualitative study examined the narrated experiences around the college choice and persistence of junior and senior first-generation students attending a private Christian college. Using interviews and focus groups, the author identified three key factors that emerged from the data: faculty, faith, and family. Faculty involvement was critical in the decision both to attend and to persist at the college; family support also was a consistently salient theme that emerged. Surprisingly, the faith factor was important to some in their decisions to attend, but for religious minority members it was actually a detracting factor, largely overcome by the strength of the professional programs and faculty involvement. For the students in this study, first-generation status did not emerge as an important part of their identify-formation. |
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| ISSN: | 1539-4107 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian higher education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/15363750802708494 |