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Meredith Manze; Dana Watnick; Lauren Rauh; Polly Smith-Faust – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
We sought to understand barriers and facilitators to academic engagement among student parents at six community colleges, through in-depth interviews with student parents, staff, and faculty members (n = 49). Using a grounded theory approach, we found parents were expected to repeatedly self-advocate and request accommodations such as for extended…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Undergraduate Students, Parents, Self Advocacy
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Minicozzi, Lisa; Roda, Allison – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2020
The purpose of this research was to discover what specific attitudes and behaviors first year students believed were necessary to transition to college by employing a qualitative lens. We chose to explore how students describe building their identities as college students, responding to the cultural shifts between high school and college, and…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Adjustment, Minority Group Students, Public Colleges