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On Social Mobility: A Brief History of First-Generation College Students@Michigan: 2007 to 2019

Dwight Lang 2019 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license
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In On Social Mobility: A Brief History of First Generation College Students@Michigan: 2007-2019 Dwight Lang examines experiences and conditions of student upward mobility in higher education, in general, and on one public, selective college campus: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He documents the origins and growth of an undergraduate group for students who are first in their families to attend and graduate from college. Starting in 2007 we see early years of the group’s establishment in the Department of Sociology. As First-gens@Michigan evolves over time we better understand how a grassroots, student movement helps inspire a university to publicly acknowledge the complexities of social class heritage and diversity. On Social Mobility explores various institutional changes that eventually lead to the establishment of a new student center: First Generation Student Gateway.

Lang describes how working and lower class students openly acknowledge and struggle with their challenging experiences on Michigan’s predominantly middle and upper middle class campus. We appreciate how first generation students are risk takers, boundary crosser, and successful social class immigrants. Resourceful first-gen efforts become the basis of connection and community as students begin their social mobility journeys. Overtime a public story emerges: stories making the invisible visible; stories of courage and persistence; stories of structural changes; a thoughtful student movement that is hard to ignore. We come to better understand the power of shared determination.

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  • 978-1-60785-519-4 (paper)
  • 978-1-60785-520-0 (ebook)
  • 978-1-60785-561-3 (open access)
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  • Social Science
  • Education
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Table Of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
    • Social Stigma, Institutional Challenges, and Changes: 2007–2019
    • Recognition, the Problem with No Name, and Institutional Prestige
    • Risk Takers, Boundary Crossers, and Social Class Immigrants
  • 2. Winter Semester 2007
  • 3. 2007–2008
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • Spring
    • How It All Started (Greg Merritt)
    • Finding a Way (Chyrisha Rucker (Brown))
    • Clearing Hurdles (Elise Bodei)
  • 4. 2008–2009
    • Fall
    • My Decision to Support First-Generation College Students@Michigan (Howard Kimeldorf)
    • Winter
    • April
    • Summer
  • 5. 2009–2010
    • Fall
    • Why We May Be the First, but We Won't Be the Last (Danielle Miller)
    • Winter
    • April
    • Group Culture and Structure (Angelica "Angel" Martin)
  • 6. 2010–2011
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • April
    • Being First-Gen (Carley Flanery)
  • 7. 2011–2012
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • April
    • Expanding and Raising Awareness (Carson Philips)
  • 8. 2012–2013
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • April
  • 9. 2013–2014
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • April
    • Summer
  • 10. 2014–2015
    • September
    • Winter
    • April
    • Realizing First-Gen Pride (Katherine "Katie" Thomas)
    • May
  • 11. 2015–2016
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • March
    • April
    • Finding Purpose (Logan Meyer)
  • 12. 2016–2017
    • Fall
    • Winter
    • April
    • Settling In (Hunter Zhao)
  • 13. 2017–2018
    • Fall
    • A Place to Call Our Own (Adan Hussain)
    • October
    • November–December
    • Winter
    • April
    • Fostering First-Gen Empowerment (Gabriela "Gaby" Paniagua)
  • 14. 2018–2019
    • September
    • October
    • November
    • December
    • January
    • April
  • Coda
  • Appendix: Agreement of Sponsorship
  • About the Author

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