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First Generation Law Students: Barriers To Success, Melissa Jones
First Generation Law Students: Barriers To Success, Melissa Jones
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A significant population of higher education students are first generation students; students who come from a home where neither parent has completed a bachelor’s degree (Vasil & McCall, 2018). These first generation students experience a gap of education, knowledge, and support which creates a persistent problem of unequal access to higher education for first generation students (MacLachlan, 2017). This unequal access shows itself in barriers faced by the students coming from these first generation backgrounds of interconnected, heightened risk factors (Gardner, 2013).
This dissertation was completed using qualitative analysis to interview six first generation college graduates in the juris doctor …