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This collective volume fills an important gap in first-generation
college student research by simultaneously achieving several
important goals. Collectively, the essays represent a balance of
personal narrative, qualitative, and quantitative approaches that
extend our understanding of the first-generation college student
(FGS) experience. The essays review the existing literature on FGS;
outline the barriers to college success faced by FGS; update the
existing literature by introducing new and cutting-edge
first-generation research; and recommend solutions to those in the
trenches, who include support staff who design programs to support
FGS. The book's contributing authors bring important personal and
scholarly expertise to the project. The authors include faculty,
administrators, support services personnel, and former students at
private liberal arts colleges, major research universities,
community colleges, and comprehensive universities in urban and
rural settings. The diverse perspectives represented in the essays
will benefit administrators and staff working at diverse types of
institutions with FGS. In addition, many of the authors were
first-generation college students. Socio-economic background
profoundly shapes a person's cultural transition into college and
heavily determines what barriers to academic success he or she will
face. This collection's authors have a keen understanding of the
FGS experience having made the transition into a foreign academic
culture themselves. The book's essays address the following topics
of concern of staff who interact with FGS: - Understanding classism
in the academy and class segregation on campus - Race, ethnicity,
class, and immigration as they impact FGS' campus experiences -
Insight for developing successful first-generation support service
programs - FGS' emotional, academic, and cultural adjustment to
campus life - The role of support groups in shaping the
first-semester FGS college experience - The importance of mentoring
in aiding FGS' cultural transition to college - The impact of a
FGS' living situation (such as in a campus living-learning center)
on academic and cultural transition
Women Educators’ Experiences During COVID-19: On the Front Lines
examines the gendered experiences, challenges, and rapid changes
faced by women in higher education during COVID-19. The book’s
chapters cover lived experiences ranging from graduate students
navigating the pandemic to those grappling with balancing
motherhood and the academy. Through these diverse perspectives,
this edited collection explores the impact of the diversity and
nuances of the feminine identity on navigating higher education
during an international health crisis. Ultimately, contributors
provide recommendations for best practices and suggestions for
change for administrators, faculty, and policymakers to dismantle
the academy as a male-dominated institution. Scholars of
communication, gender studies, and higher education will find this
book of particular interest.
Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and
Graduate Studentsaddresses how many academics who experience mental
distress or mental illness are afraid to speak out because of
cultural stigma and fears of career repercussions. Many academics'
reluctance to publicly disclose their struggles complicates
attempts to understand their experiences through research or
popular media, or to develop targeted mental health resources and
institutional policies. This volume builds on the existing studies
in this greatly under-researched area of mental health among
faculty, administrators, and graduate students in higher education.
The chapters' research findings will help institutions communicate
about mental health in culturally-competent and person-centered
ways; create work environments conducive to mental well-being; and
support their academic employees who have mental health challenges.
This book argues that discussions of health and wellness, equity,
workload expectations and productivity, and campus diversity must
also cover chronic illness and disability, which include mental
health and mental illness.
Health Care Disparities and the LGBT Population addresses a people
whose lack of health care access, including mistreatment and
refusal of services, are often omitted from discussions about
health care and insurance reform. Research suggests that LGBT
people experience worse health outcomes than their heterosexual
counterparts. Low rates of health insurance coverage, high rates of
stress due to systematic harassment, stigma, discrimination, and
lack of cultural competency in the health care system frequently
manifest in negative health-related behaviors. The dearth of data
collection on sexual orientation and identity in state and federal
health care surveys has led to inadequate information about LGBT
populations, and has impeded the establishment of health programs
and public policies that benefit them. With its diverse
perspectives, this book will not only benefit LGBT people, but will
also more broadly improve the lives of entire communities, medical
care, and prevention programs and services. This research provides
a better understanding of the social and structural inequalities
that LGBT populations experience. Improvements to our country's
health care system should go beyond just providing universal
insurance and should ensure equitable health care for all.
This co-edited volume addresses a population of people whose lack
of health care access, mistreatment in health care settings, and
refusal of health care services are often omitted from discussions
about health care disparities and insurance reform. The
perspectives and needs of LGBT people should be routinely
considered in public health efforts to improve the overall health
of every person and eliminate health disparities. Previous research
suggests that LGBT people experience worse health outcomes than
their heterosexual counterparts. Differences in sexual behavior
account for some of these disparities, but others are associated
with social and structural inequities. Low rates of health
insurance coverage, high rates of stress due to systematic
harassment, stigma, and discrimination, and a lack of cultural
competency in the health care system frequently manifest in
negative health-related behaviors. The lack of data collection on
sexual orientation and identity in state and federal health care
surveys leads to inadequate information about LGBT populations and
impedes the establishment of health programs and public policies
that benefit them.This volume's research will increase people's
understanding of the social and structural inequalities that LGBT
populations experience. With its diverse perspectives, this book
will not only benefit LGBT people, but will also more broadly
improve the lives of entire communities, medical care, and
prevention programs and services. Improvements to our country's
health care system should go beyond providing universal insurance
and should ensure equitable health care for all.
First-Generation College Student Experiences of Intersecting
Marginalities examines the intersecting relationships between a
student's identity as a first-generation college student (FGCS) and
other identities such as race, class, LGBTQ+, and spiritual
identity. This book breaks new ground by examining highly diverse
populations of FGCS, rather than predominantly White undergraduates
at four-year public universities. First-Generation College Student
Experiences of Intersecting Marginalities explores the
intersections of identities that may be marginalized in different
ways across a student's educational journey in research-grounded
chapters that discuss real academic experiences of faculty,
administrators, graduate students, and undergraduates.
First-Generation College Student Experiences of Intersecting
Marginalities examines the intersecting relationships between a
student's identity as a first-generation college student (FGCS) and
other identities such as race, class, LGBTQ+, and spiritual
identity. This book breaks new ground by examining highly diverse
populations of FGCS, rather than predominantly White undergraduates
at four-year public universities. First-Generation College Student
Experiences of Intersecting Marginalities explores the
intersections of identities that may be marginalized in different
ways across a student's educational journey in research-grounded
chapters that discuss real academic experiences of faculty,
administrators, graduate students, and undergraduates.
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