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First Year College Experiences Of California’S Central Valley Latina/O/X Students, Alonzo Campos
First Year College Experiences Of California’S Central Valley Latina/O/X Students, Alonzo Campos
CGU Theses & Dissertations
Making the decision to attend and pursue college as a means of social mobility is an option students in the state of California make every year when graduating high school. Scholars have contributed extensively to understand how students prepare and transition into their first year of college, as well as the benefits and outcomes that allows students to acclimate and succeed. The multiple factors that contribute to students’ acclimation into higher education has been a central point. The aim of this study was to explore how Latina/o/x students from California’s Central Valley navigated their college transition in the first year …
The Educational Opportunity Structure And Stratification Of College Counseling At Southern California Public High Schools, Adriana Ceron
The Educational Opportunity Structure And Stratification Of College Counseling At Southern California Public High Schools, Adriana Ceron
Pitzer Senior Theses
This study documents how organizational strategies underlying college counseling departments modify counselors’ ability to perform their academic and college advising duties. To examine this, fifteen semi-structured, in-depth interviews with public high school counselors in Southern California were conducted. A district’s commitment to college access and opportunity, as well as parents’ expectations for maintaining a college-going culture, shaped the nature of college counseling and organizational habitus in a school. Counselors reported that access to different forms of institutional support and resources diminish or exacerbate the structural constraints known to surface in public schools. This influenced when and how counselors advised students, …