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Brower, Rebecca; Hu, Pei; Daniels, Hollie; Bertrand Jones, Tamara; Hu, Shouping – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
This qualitative study examines how intergenerational learning contributed to academic motivation among students of different ages in the Florida College System, the state's community college system. The data for this study included 166 semi-structured focus groups with 375 students collected during site visits to 21 state colleges over a…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Learning Motivation, Intergenerational Programs, Family Involvement
Ashburn, Elyse – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
On paper, Mariella Castillo's family makes her likelier than other students to drop out of college. Her mother left school after the fifth grade, and her father has only a middle-school education. Her parents speak little English, and Castillo, who was born in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, spoke her first words in Spanish. Numerous studies…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Community Colleges, Family School Relationship, Family Involvement