At the Intersection

Foreword
Preface
Introduction—Hope Longwell-Grice 

Part One: Who is a First-Generation College Student?
1) A Review of the Data—Robert Longwell-Grice
2) Unpacking First-Gen Discourse: A Sociological Perspective—Steven P. Dandaneau
3) Setting the Foundation: Understanding the Impact of College on First-Generation Students—Ryan D. Padgett
4) Critical Conversation One: First-Gen or Working Class? The Politics of Terminology—Sherry Lee Linkon
5) Background Characteristics of First-Generation Students and Their Reasons for Pursuing Higher Education—Khanh Bui
6) Message Received: Parental Encouragement and its Effect on the College Choice Process—Michael J. Smith
7) Critical Conversation Two: Inheriting Inequality: Hidden Challenges of First-Gen Student—David Hernández

Part Two: The Intersections of Identity
8) The Nuances of First-Generation College Students’ Social Class Identity—Sonja Ardoin
9) I Don’t Need Any Help: Working with First-Generation, Low-income, White Males—Roxanne Moschetti
10) Critical Conversation Three: Reflections on Being a First-Generation, African-American Male College Student—Nate Deans, Jr.
11) Dual Invisibilities: The Intersection of First-Generation and LGBT Identities—Pheng Xiong
12) First-Generation Latinex Students’ Seeking Information at College—Vasti Torres, Lucy LePeau, and Yvonne Garcia
13) Critical Conversation Four: First-Generation and Undocumented—Ana Karina Soltero López
14) It’s All About the Journey: Exploring the College Experience of First-Generation Women—Nicole Zervas Adsitt
15) Crossing Bridges: First-generation Native American Students at College—Les Riding-In and Scott Amundsen
16) Critical Conversation Five: Project MALES—Victor B. Sáenz, Emmet Campos, Mike Gutierrez, and Rodrigo Aguayo

Part Three: Programs and Practices
17) And the Research Says… Program Supports Across the Spectrum—Rob Longwell-Grice and Mackenzie Hoffman
18) College Preparation through College Access and Support Programs—   Staci Weber
19) Critical Conversation Six: It’s All a Bunch of B.S.: How Institutional Jargon Creates In-Groups & Out-Groups in Higher Education—Sonja Ardoin
20) Supporting Transfer for First-Generation Community College Students—Gloria Crisp, Rebecca Robertson and Elizabeth Cox Brand
21) Critical Conversation Seven: Moving on in Milwaukee: Easing the College Transition Process for Two-Year College Students—Pablo Muirhead
22) Learning Where They Live: First-Generation College Students in the Residence Halls—Paul Gallagher
23) Critical Conversation Eight: Advice for Advisors—Hadyn K. Swecker and Matthew Fifolt
24) Career Development Needs of First-Generation College Students—Heather Maietta
25) Critical Conversation Nine: They’re Here, Now, What Can We Do to Keep Them?—Katharine Moffat
26) Admissions Isn’t Access: First Generation College Graduates in Medical Schools—Hyacinth Mason, Jeffrey Winseman, and Erin Ayala
27) Critical Conversation Ten: Becoming the Architect: First-Generation Graduate Students Claiming the Label—Adj Marshall
28) When First-Generation College Students Become Doctoral Candidates—Heather Maietta
29) Critical Conversation Eleven: How a College Re-Built Itself by Centering First-Generation College Students—Staci Weber
Epilogue: What’s in a Name? Narratives and Counter-Narratives of the First-Generation Moniker—Rashne Jehangir and Kelly Collins

About the Contributors
Index 

Robert Longwell-Grice

Rob Longwell-Grice, Ed.D. is currently the director of recruitment and scholarship services for the School of Education at UW Milwaukee. Rob was featured in the documentary film, “First Gens,” released in the fall of 2019. Rob is a first-generation college student and his dissertation was a case study of working class, first-generation white males. The study looked at the interplay of social class and first-generation status.

Hope Longwell-Grice

Hope Longwell-Grice, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.