Humble and hopeful: Welcoming first‐generation poor and working‐class students to college |
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Authors: | Kenneth Oldfield |
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Affiliation: | University of Illinois, Springfield |
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Abstract: | Students who are the first in their family to enter higher education join a rarified and often mystifying culture of rules, rites, and rituals. A first‐generation working‐class college student who became a faculty member offers his insights and recommendations after forty years in the academy. |
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