The Filipino 1.5-Generation College Student Experience: Navigating Faculty of Color Life From the Margins

• In Event: "First-Generation" Faculty of Color in Higher Education: Voicing Silenced Narratives in Academe

Abstract

Many U.S. Filipino youth have college-educated parents and are considered second-generation college students. However, not considered in such a categorization are the nuanced experiences of students whose parents received postsecondary degrees in foreign countries. Due to various factors associated with immigration, namely occupational recruitment and underemployment, U.S. Filipino youth with Philippine-educated parents often do not experience the benefits associated with second-generation college student status (Buenavista, 2009). In my presentation I describe U.S. Filipino sociocultural contexts in higher education to introduce the idea of a “1.5-generation college student,” how these students are excluded from college recruitment and retention programs and services, the self-navigation practices developed as a result of such exclusion, and the subsequent ways that such exclusion and practices continue within a faculty career context. More specifically, I present an autoethnographic account that detail how complexities regarding education generational status materially shapes long-term money practices (e.g. salary negotiation, work hours, and attitudes towards savings/retirement) on the faculty career trajectories of Filipino 1.5-generation college graduates.

Author

• Latonya Rease-Miles, Loyola Marymount University