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Aspirants And Interlopers: First-Generation, Underrepresented, Low-Income Master's Students, Jennifer Miles
Aspirants And Interlopers: First-Generation, Underrepresented, Low-Income Master's Students, Jennifer Miles
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This thesis is based on eleven interviews with seven students enrolled in a social science master’s degree program at a small public university in the Western United States (University of the Northwest - UNW). My analysis details the differences in pathways and educational experiences between first- and continuing-generation students in this program. I found that first-generation, underrepresented, low-income (FGULI) students expressed greater difficulty fitting into graduate school, greater doubt about their ability to ‘do’ graduate school, less comfort interacting with faculty, and less ease with the concept of graduate school and with conceptualizing themselves as graduate students than continuing-generation students …