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The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: A Study of How First-Generation Latino Male College Students Acquire Cultural Capital

Description: This study aimed to take asset-based approach and identify Latino male students who were persisting in college, and to identify what strategies made them successful. This qualitative study consulted Tinto's revised student departure model, Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital, as well as Yosso's theory of community cultural wealth. A phenomenological design was utilized to identify the shared experience of first-generation Latino male college students who had persisted in college and maintai… more
Date: December 2019
Creator: Portillo, Pedro Atilano-Molina
Partner: UNT Libraries
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UNT Honors Day: 2016

Description: Recording of the 2016 UNT Honors Day event held at Winspear Hall to honor accomplished and distinguished students, faculty, and staff. Included are musical performances, speeches and introductions from Provost and Vice President Dr. Finley Graves and Dr. Elizabeth With, a keynote speech from Wisteria Wells and Ke'Yonna Hall, as well as the recognition and presentation of awards and honors to students and teachers alike.
Date: April 1, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Interpersonal Factors Related to the Pursuit of a Higher Education Among First Generation Undergraduate Students

Description: The typical educational stressors experienced by college students, in conjunction with developmental stressors such as separation from parents, individuation, and perceived social support, can interact to impact adaptation significantly. First generation college students (students who are the first in their family to attend college) can experience stressors beyond the typical educational stressors experienced by later generation college students, including lack of support from family and peers … more
Date: May 2012
Creator: Aguirre, Jacqueline S.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Resiliency and the successful first-generation community college student: Identifying effective student support services.

Description: This study examined what differences in resiliency traits, if any, exist between successful and non-successful first and continuing-generation college students through the use of a survey. For the purposes of this study, first-generation students were those students whose parents have never attended college and continuing-generation college students were those students whose parents have attended some college. For the purposes of this study, the term successful was defined as those students who… more
Date: May 2007
Creator: Parrent, Condoa M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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