Breaking Down Barriers: Academic Obstacles of First ...

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with achieving academic excellence. A variety of definitions have been used to describe first-generation students in the higher education and college student development literature, and each definition has subsequent consequences for students, institutions, and organizations. The authors of this article defined first-generation status

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