Rethinking Higher Education Through the Strengths and Insights of First-Generation College Students

This series asks in what ways the strengths and experiences of first-generation college students can lead to new ways of imagining institutional cultures. It explores how institutions celebrate their gifts, talents, and experiences as persons with unique perspectives and abilities to enrich institutional imagination. It sheds light on how first-generation college students negotiate the culture of higher education through embracing multiple identities, on experiences within the context of study abroad programs, on the problem of language and structures of accessible education, and on relevant and dynamic pedagogical skills and tools that institutions can embrace. Foregrounding a collaborative approach and focusing on solutions that benefit both first-generation college students and tertiary institutions, it will appeal to scholars, researchers, and upper-level students with interests in higher education, international and comparative education, cultural studies, philosophy of education, study abroad, decolonial studies, and student services.