- Feb 2019
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Higher education is a critical pathway to achieving occupational success and social status in all industrialized countries.
I agree that higher education is key to achieving success in one's career. This article accomplishes its goal of showing evidence that first generation students who do not have proper knowledge of "how to college", may limit their success.
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lower path that emphasizes the explicit understanding of course material and an upper path that emphasizes both the implicit and explicit understanding of faculty expectations. I
To further explain, one is strictly discussing the material for the course and the other is expectations from faculty, those who could be teaching the material.
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the faculty, we conducted two focus groups with instructors who primarily taught undergraduate courses in either business or the liberal arts and sciences.
I'm just wondering as to why the split was done this way, why those choices of colleges? What separates business majors from liberal arts and sciences?
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qualitative perspectiv
Means a general way of thinking about conducting qualitative research. Describes the purpose of the research, role of researchers, stages of research, and the method of data analysis.
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social integratio
a dynamic and structured process in which all members participate in dialogue to achieve and maintain peaceful social relations.
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That plastic thing to carry stuff to the bathroom.
Shower caddy, I am guessing.
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We thought we all needed to be there for freshman orientation — the whole family, for the entirety of it.
This is like most college orientation or tours, there is one for parents and students- the ones that are actually attending the school and going to experience it.
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She no longer needed to update her parents about her every assignment or bad grade.
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How much first-gen status really matters for college admissions is unclear.
There seems to be different types of "first generation" students, not just ones that are low income or the first to attend college in the family.
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Pitzer College has a few endowed scholarships. The University of Wisconsin just began offering free tuition for first-gen transfer students, while Duke last year created one of the most generous, comprehensive programs of all.
These are are all great programs aimed at helping first generation students succeed.
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“First gen” may be the latest buzz phrase in higher education but its import is not just academic.
"First gen" doesn't always take education into consideration. It could account for other variables.
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I agree that this student is a first gen, he was not raised by his father- the parent that hold the bachelor degree.
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“This is the drive some people have to be the best and the brightest — some of these high-income preschools are trying to cram so much into the day that they’re minimizing nap time,”
Some preschools are doing so much with the kids that nap time is often minimized. But this later on affects the toddler's performance during learning.
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For example, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that preschoolers get 10 to 13 hours of sleep each day, including naps, but does not say how that time should be carved up.
How can you divide this throughout the day, including naps, and does the time of sleep affect any variables?
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planning.sfsu.edu planning.sfsu.edu
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This will include: formal and informal collaborations, lectures and symposia, student internships, hack-a-thons, tech boot camps and faculty and professional residencies.
What are some examples of this in more recent years?
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including setting specific goals for groups such as international students, out-of-state students and under-represented communities.
SFSU caters to all students: international students, out-of-state students, and those that are under-represented aside from the whole student body.
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University’s direction and role as an urban institution and its commitment to its historical legacy as fertile ground for diversity
SFSU takes pride in being a diverse campus for its students and takes advance of the ethnically diverse urban area in which it is located.
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