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Find copies of books featured on the Boatwright Library FLI book display, including additional books and articles only accessible online!
Notable First-Gen Graduates
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
All This Could Be Different: A Novel
Voices of Asian Americans in Higher Education: Unheard Stories
Queer People of Color in Higher Education
Americans by Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education
Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories
Increasing Access to College: Extending Possibilities for All Students
Public Funding of Higher Education: Changing Contexts and New Rationales
Leaders of Color in Higher Education: Unrecognized Triumphs in Harsh Institutions
Becoming
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
With the Fire on High
Solito: A Memoir
Does Money Matter?: The Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement and Adult Success
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel
The Hate U Give
The Outsiders
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: The Secrets of Good Communication
Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (DVD)
Michael Jordan: The Life (Audiobook)
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Finding Me
My Beloved World
It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership
Print Books
First-Generation College Student Research Studies
First in the Family: Advice About College from First Generation Students
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Almost Home
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Free Food for Millionaires
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
First in My Family: A Profile of First-Generation College Students at Four-Year Institutions Since 1971
Supporting Todays Students in the Library: Strategies for Retaining and Graduating International, Transfer, First-Generation, and Re-Entry Students
Higher Education and First-Generation Students: Cultivating Community, Voice, and Place for the New Majority
The First Generation Student Experience: Implications for Campus Practice, and Strategies for Improving Persistence and Success
Make Your Home Among Strangers: A Novel
Normal People: A Novel
Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students: Qualitative and Intersectional Studies of Educational Mobility
Educated: A Memoir
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
College Belonging: How First-Year and First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life
The Hidden Curriculum: First Generation Students at Legacy Universities
E-Books
Bridges: United States Academia for First-Generation and International College Students
Geographies of Campus Inequality: Mapping the Diverse Experiences of First-Generation Students
Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum
Giants among Us: First-Generation College Graduates Who Lead Activist Lives
The Journey Before Us: First-Generation Pathways from Middle School to College
First Generation Entry into Higher Education
State of Empowerment: Low-Income Families and the New Welfare State
The Hidden Curriculum: First Generation Students at Legacy Universities
Michelle Obama: A Biography
Fifth Chinese Daughter
Scholarly and Current Events Articles
“Just because I am first gen doesn't mean I’m not asking for help”: A thematic analysis of first-generation college students’ academic help-seeking behaviors (2021)
First-Gen Lens: Assessing Mental Health of First-Generation Students across Their First Year at College Using Mobile Sensing (2022)
Exploring Black girl magic: Identity development of Black first-gen college women (2022)
Perceptions of academic preparedness of first-gen freshmen in a physiology major inform recommendations for program-level academic development initiatives (2023)
Navigating Academia, Single Parenthood, and First-Gen Experiences (2021)
Is First-Gen an Identity? How First-Generation College Students Make Meaning of Institutional and Familial Constructions of Self (2022)
Tips for Teaching Library Instruction and Information Literacy to First-Gen College Students, Nontraditional Students, or English as a Second Language (ESL) Students (2019)
Resilience Through Family: Family Support as an Academic and Psychological Protective Resource for Mexican Descent First-Generation College Students (2022)
Admission of first generation to college pre-licensure master's entry and graduate nursing students (2020)
Visibility & support for first generation college graduates in medicine (2022)
Service-Learning and First-Generation University Students: A Conceptual Exploration of the Literature (2019)
Service-Learning and First-Generation University Students: A Conceptual Exploration of the Literature (2019)
First Gens Unite (2015)
Movin' on up (to College): First-Generation College Students' Experiences With Family Achievement Guilt (2015)
Talking 'bout my generation: Defining "first-generation college students" in higher education research (2018)
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