Just hold on, you can do this”

This study illustrates how parents, siblings, and extended family provide emotional, informative, instrumental, and appraisal supports to first-generation undergraduate students of color. Findings also suggest that families’ support is shaped by families’ understanding of the challenges first-generation college students face, their access to information about college and college life, and their consideration of students’ emerging adult developmental needs. Based on the experiences and perspectives of 12 family members, this study shows that families continue to be engaged in first-generation undergraduate students’ college education in essential ways, countering deficit perceptions of these populations, and providing new understandings of what family engagement means within a higher education context. Ultimately, this study offers the opportunity to invest in family–school–student partnerships for student success within a higher education context

Developmental psychology · Mathematics education · Medical education · Sociology · Women of color · Education Systems and Policy · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology

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