{"id":2459,"date":"2022-12-21T11:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T16:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coenet.org\/?post_type=resources&p=2459"},"modified":"2023-01-09T10:50:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T15:50:42","slug":"moving-beyond-access-college-success-for-low-income-first-generation-students","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/coenet.org\/resources\/moving-beyond-access-college-success-for-low-income-first-generation-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Beyond Access – College Success for Low-Income, First-Generation Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\r\n\t\t
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The report highlights how the combined impact of being both low-income and first-generation correlates with a range of factors (i.e. demographic and enrollment characteristics) that lower the students’ chances of successfully earning a college degree. <\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t

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Moving Beyond Access – College Success for Low-Income, First-Generation Students<\/p>\t\t

Dr. Jennifer Engle, Assistant Director for Higher Education, Ed Trust, and former Senior Research Analyst, Pell Institute in collaboration with Dr. Vincent Tinto, Pell Institute Senior Scholar and Distinguished University Professor, Higher Education Program, School of Education, Syracuse University, completed this new timely and informative Pell Institute report in which they examine the post-secondary characteristics, experiences, and outcomes of low-income, first-generation college students. The report highlights how the combined impact of being both low-income and first-generation correlates with a range of factors (i.e. demographic and enrollment characteristics) that lower the students? chances of successfully earning a college degree. Thus, they show how the combination of these two characteristics put students who are both low-income and the first in their families to go to college at the greatest risk of failure in post-secondary education.<\/p>\n

The report utilized data from the U.S. Department of Education datasets to describe:<\/p>\n