A Qualitative Study of First-Year College Transition Experiences Among First-Generation, Ethnic Minority Immigrant Students

• In Event: Experiences of Language Minority Students in Postsecondary Education

Abstract

The first-year college experience is critical because during this time students negotiate the transition from adolescence to young adulthood that shapes success in college and leads to a degree completion and career prospects. By taking an ecological perspective, this qualitative study examines interactions between individual characteristics and the immediate environment to better understand first-generation, ethnic minority immigrant students’ first-year college transition experiences and to illuminate the individual and contextual factors that influence them.

Authors

• Eunyoung Kim, Seton Hall University

• Tharinee Kamnoesin, Seton Hall University