CANCELLED. On the Road to Graduation: Successful Latino Male Students' Perspectives on Their Academic Success

• In Event: 41.084 - Roundtable Session 16
  In Roundtable Session: 41.084-10 - Opportunity and Challenge for Students of Color and Indigenous Students in Higher Education

Abstract

The experiences of Latino males are oftentimes consolidated with those of other students of color and are characterized by a deficit-oriented narrative focusing on challenges rather than successes. Concentrating on the difficulties experienced by Latinx socializes practitioners and researchers to focus on them as problems, instead of resilient beings (Harper, 2014). This qualitative study focused on the experiences of successful Latino male students, who discussed how they understood their persistence in college. Analysis focused on how participants’ perceptions of persistence differed by ethnicity, being first generation college student, household income and immigrant generation. Findings from this study revealed distinctions in how successful Latino male students’ contextualized their persistence and how these contribute to their success, self-efficacy beliefs and academic optimism.

Author

• Carolina E. Gonzalez, Montclair State University