TY - JOUR
T1 - Predicting transition and adjustment to college
T2 - Biomedical and behavioral science aspirants' and minority students' first year of college
AU - Hurtado, Sylvia
AU - Han, June C.
AU - Sáenz, Victor B.
AU - Espinosa, Lorelle L.
AU - Cabrera, Nolan L.
AU - Cerna, Oscar S.
PY - 2007/11
Y1 - 2007/11
N2 - The purpose of this study is to explore key factors that impact the college transition of aspiring underrepresented minority students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, in comparison with White, Asian students and non-science minority students. We examined successful management of the academic environment and sense of belonging during the first college year. Longitudinal data were derived from the Higher Education Research Institute's (HERI) 2004 Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Freshman Survey and the 2005 Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey. Using a reformulation of the integration model (Nora, Barlow, and Crisp, 2005), we find concerns about college financing, negotiating family support and responsibility, and campus racial dynamics (perceived and behavioral) affect student adjustment and sense of integration in the first year.
AB - The purpose of this study is to explore key factors that impact the college transition of aspiring underrepresented minority students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, in comparison with White, Asian students and non-science minority students. We examined successful management of the academic environment and sense of belonging during the first college year. Longitudinal data were derived from the Higher Education Research Institute's (HERI) 2004 Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Freshman Survey and the 2005 Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey. Using a reformulation of the integration model (Nora, Barlow, and Crisp, 2005), we find concerns about college financing, negotiating family support and responsibility, and campus racial dynamics (perceived and behavioral) affect student adjustment and sense of integration in the first year.
KW - College adjustment
KW - First year of college
KW - Science education
KW - Sense of belonging
KW - Transition
KW - Underrepresented minorities
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U2 - 10.1007/s11162-007-9051-x
DO - 10.1007/s11162-007-9051-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34547221204
SN - 0361-0365
VL - 48
SP - 841
EP - 887
JO - Research in Higher Education
JF - Research in Higher Education
IS - 7
ER -