Reinforcing the Educational Glass Ceiling: For-Profit Institutions' Cost of Attending for Women

• In Event: Educational Accessibility and Mobility: Assessing Equity and Outcomes

Abstract

Utilizing qualitative research, women’s experiences are heard and brought to the researchers for consideration. Focusing on accessibility of higher education for first-generation women that ended up attending FPIs over traditional higher education, examining the results. The barriers women have faced in fighting for the right to be educated are innumerable (Parker, 2015). The research will bring the voices and stories of female students who have attended an FPI to the literature to increase knowledge in higher education. To examine the narratives of first-generation women students who have attended FPIs with the intent of advancing their professional training and careers. This paper explores the financial peril students that have attended FPIs have faced.

Author

• Kristen Blazek, Cleveland State University