{"id":1461,"date":"2017-09-27T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2017-09-27T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:59:34","slug":"report-examines-experiences-of-first-gen-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/09\/27\/report-examines-experiences-of-first-gen-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Examines Experiences of First-Gen Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1462\" style=\"width: 754px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/firstgen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1462\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/firstgen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/firstgen.jpg 754w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/firstgen-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prospective first-generation college students cite high educational aspirations as 10<sup>th<\/sup> graders, but take longer to enroll in college and are less likely than their peers to earn a degree.<\/p>\n<p>Those findings are included in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubs2018\/2018009.pdf\">research brief<\/a> from the US Department of Education\u2019s Institute of Educational Sciences. The report uses 10 years of data collected from a nationally representative sample of students who were high school sophomores in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After a decade, only 20 percent of first-generation students had obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree, compared with 42 percent of continuing generation college students \u2014 a term researchers used to describe students with at least one parent who had attended college.<\/p>\n<p>Among first-generation students who did not complete a degree, 54 percent cited financial concerns as a factor in their decision to leave school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubs2018\/2018009.pdf\">Read the full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted<\/em>\u00a0<em>writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\" href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospective first-generation college students cite high educational aspirations as 10th graders, but take longer to enroll in college and are less likely than their peers to earn a degree. Those findings are included in a new research brief from the US Department of Education\u2019s Institute of Educational Sciences. The report uses 10 years of data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/09\/27\/report-examines-experiences-of-first-gen-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Report Examines Experiences of First-Gen Students<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,111],"tags":[331,191],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-college-admission","category-college-completion","tag-first-generation","tag-research"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-nz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}