Correlates of physical activity in low income college students

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 634-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce L. Maglione ◽  
Laura L. Hayman
2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin A. Tate ◽  
Nadya A. Fouad ◽  
Laura Reid Marks ◽  
Gary Young ◽  
Eddie Guzman ◽  
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Author(s):  
Eleni Oikonomidoy ◽  
Adrienne L. Edwards ◽  
Matthew Aguirre ◽  
Maria Sandra Jimenez ◽  
Joseph Lykes ◽  
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Author(s):  
John T. Ishiyama ◽  
Valerie M. Hopkins

This study assessed the performance of a federal program designed to serve first-generation, low-income (FGLI) college students—the Ronald E. McNair Program. Using data from a midwestern liberal arts university we found that FGLI program participants are far more likely to be retained to the university and successful in terms of timely graduation and placement into graduate school than FGLI non-participants, even when controlling for academic ability and ambition.


2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashné R. Jehangir ◽  
Arien B. Telles ◽  
Veronica Deenanath

This study examines how first-generation, low-income college students make meaning of their career development process during their first year of college. Photovoice was employed to collect visual data and accompanying narrative texts providing a rich data set created by students during their transition to college. Four findings emerged from this participatory action method where students captured important aspects of their career development process: (a) extrinsic and intrinsic motivators, (b) struggles, (c) agent of change, and (d) envisioning the future. This study deepens our understanding of how the intersection of students’ individual identities, contexts, and motivations can inform praxis and allow them translate their particular assets toward career meaning-making. Systems theory and photovoice together served as useful lenses from which to unpack these identities in this study.


Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Morton

This chapter describes the ethical costs of upward mobility and presents an argument for why they are different from other costs that strivers face on their path. It argues that understanding the nature of the ethical goods move people well beyond the cost-benefit analysis that might be appropriate when thinking about money, time, or effort. The ethical costs of upward mobility are particular and not easily offset. Consequently, loss is felt keenly by those who succeed even if they ultimately have much to gain from the sacrifices they have made. The chapter emphasizes how people who are concerned with the challenges faced by first-generation and low-income college students often fail to appreciate the significance of the potential ethical costs that strivers encounter in pursuing a better life for themselves.


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