Overview

More students are enrolling in college than ever before in U.S. history. Yet, many never graduate. In The Journey Before Us, Laura Nichols examines why this is by sharing the experiences of aspiring first-generation college students as they move from middle-school to young adulthood. By following the educational trajectories and transitions of Latinx, mainly second-generation immigrant students and analyzing national data, Nichols explores the different paths that students take and the factors that make a difference. The interconnected role of schools, neighborhoods, policy, employment, advocates, identity, social class, and family reveal what must change to address the ""college completion crisis."" Appropriate for anyone wanting to understand their own educational journey as well as students, teachers, counselors, school administrators, scholars, and policymakers, The Journey Before Us outlines what is needed so that education can once again be a means of social mobility for those who would be the first in their families to graduate from college.

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Author:   Laura Nichols
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9781978805637

ISBN 10:   1978805632
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   17 January 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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In this approachable yet informative work, Laura Nichols explores why first-generation students struggle to remain on the journey toward college enrollment and completion. This thoroughly-researched book is very impressive! --Susan A. Dumais Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York The Chronicle of Higher Education 'Selected New Books on Higher Education' round-up https: //www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247906--Susan A. Dumais Chronicle of Higher Education 'The Journey Before Us' - Author describes her book on first-generation students by Scott Jaschik --Susan A. Dumais Inside Higher Education

In this approachable yet informative work, Laura Nichols explores why first-generation students struggle to remain on the journey toward college enrollment and completion. This thoroughly-researched book is very impressive! --Susan A. Dumais Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York 'The Journey Before Us' - Author describes her book on first-generation students by Scott Jaschik --Inside Higher Education

In this approachable yet informative work, Laura Nichols explores why first-generation students struggle to remain on the journey toward college enrollment and completion. This thoroughly-researched book is very impressive! --Susan A. Dumais Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

"""This book should appeal to researchers in the fields of the sociology of education, as it contributes to the literature on Latinos and first-generation college students. This is an important text, as it highlights the barriers FGC students confront, in spite of institutional efforts to mitigate the effects of those transitions.""— Journal of Latinos and Education The Chronicle of Higher Education 'Selected New Books on Higher Education' round-up https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247906— Chronicle of Higher Education “In this approachable yet informative work, Laura Nichols explores why first-generation students struggle to remain on the journey toward college enrollment and completion. This thoroughly-researched book is very impressive!”— Susan A. Dumais, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York ""'The Journey Before Us' - Author describes her book on first-generation students"" by Scott Jaschik  — Inside Higher Education"

In this approachable yet informative work, Laura Nichols explores why first-generation students struggle to remain on the journey toward college enrollment and completion. This thoroughly-researched book is very impressive!

Author Information

Laura Nichols is an associate professor of sociology at Santa Clara University in California. She is the co-editor of Undocumented and In College: Students and Institutions in a Climate of National Hostility. 

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