First-generation Student Success Research Grants
The You First at VCU First-Generation Student Success and Research Center invites applications for funding to support scholarly activity focused on first-generation/low-income college student success. Projects may address student success barriers (social, academic, health related, and financial), new approaches and innovations to enhancing student success, faculty engagement in activities related to success of first-generation students, and teaching/learning approaches. You First at VCU is also interested in supporting interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches pertinent to the success of first-generation/low-income college students. These awards provide funding of up to $3,000 to faculty.
Characterization of First-Generation Pharmacy Student Experiences: A Multi-School Qualitative Study
Caitlin M. Gibson and colleagues
Enhancing First-Generation Engineering Student Success Through Experiential Learning
Casey Grey
The Weight of Two Worlds: Invisible Labor and Resilience in First-Generation Immigrant and Refugee Student Success
Hyojin Im
Documenting College Student Food Insecurity on the VCU Health/Medical College of Virginia Campus
Youngmi Kim, John Jones
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Mindfulness-Based Telehealth Group Intervention for First-Generation College Students
Waganesh (Waggy) Zeleke
An Assessment of a Coaching Intervention’s Impact on the Retention and Graduation of First-Generation AAPI Students in a Public University
Daniel Baslock, Zisu Liao, Ananda Newmark
Examining the Barriers to Academic Success Among First-Generation College Students: Exploring the Role of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors
Youngdeok Kim
Unseen: A Mixed Methods Participatory Action Research Study of First-Generation Transfer Students
Sharon Zumbrunn, Tanya L. Wineland, Kali A.V. Delay
Setting First-Gen Students up for Success: An Examination of First-Generation College Students, Success Modules and the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire
Tim Bajkiewicz, Jonathan Becker
Enhancing Career Search Self Efficacy to Improve Employment Outcomes for First Generation Students
Katybeth Lee
From “Cultural Mismatch” to “Cross-Cultural Mobilization”: Developing Participatory Action Research and Peer-Support Spaces for First-Generation, LGBTQIA+, and AAPI+SA Students at VCU.
Ying-Chao Kao, Yiwen Wei, Nichole Marie Killian
Orienting First-Year, First Gen POLI Majors Toward Student Success
Alexandra Reckendorf, Amanda Wintersieck, Nathan Bickett, & Jennifer Clayton
Safe spaces at VCU from the perspective of 1st Gen and AAPI students
John Aughenbaugh, Ellen Carpenter, M Teresa Doherty, Ngoc-My Guidarelli, John Jones, Bernard Means, Daniel Morales, Sara Rafuse, Matthew Scott, & Jaclyn Vick
Exploring First-Generation Student Success in Undergraduate Honors Education
Jacqueline Smith-Mason
Addressing Food Insecurity and Mental Health Needs of First-Generation Students through Peer Support
Youngmi Kim & Gary Cuddeback
Analysis of Little Ram Pantry Efficacy Focus Group Data
John Jones & Youngmi Kim
A Three-Pronged Approach to Creating Equitable Outcomes for First-Gen POLI Majors
Alexandra Reckendorf, Amanda Wintersieck, Nathan Bickett, & Jen Clayton
A Strengths-Based and Intersectional Approach to Understanding Belonging in First-Generation Students: A Mixed Methods Participatory Action Research Study
Sharon Zumbrunn, Oswaldo Moreno & Korinthia Nicolai
Increasing Belongingness among First Generation LGBTQIA students: A Photovoice Study
Traci Wike
Awareness and Usage of Math Resources for First-Generation Students
Punit Gandhi, Heather Nunnally, and Angela Reynolds
A Programmatic Evaluation of Use and Efficacy of Little Food Pantries to Mitigate College Student Food Insecurity at an Urban Public University
John Jones
Game-theoretic Approach to Mindset Evolution Between Interactions with Teachers and Students
David Chan, Oyita Udiani, and Rani Satyam
Financial Well-being for First Generation Students
Ellen Carpenter and Carolyn Faith McCrea
Identifying Needs and Supporting First-Gen, LGBTQ+ Students at VCU
Yiwen Wei, Ying-Chao Kao, and Nicole Marie Killian
Design-Based Implementation Research to Establish Best Practices for Supportive Student-Faculty Interactions
Anathea Pepperl