Frame

So this is a little tricky. The title is "Why are first generation college students more likely to fail?", but with the process of explaining the why, I also want to get into the details of how to make it not so for them to fail. Many term thrown around in articles is social-economic-status (SES) by Longmire-vital and Miller-Dyce. It normal to see that most of the FGS come from lower levels of the table. Another aspect I want to get over is the statistics that follow FGS. Historically, FGS tend to not perform as well as those who were already are non-FGS. "FGCS often do not perform as well academically as, and persist to graduation at lower rates than, their peers who have more familial context for the college-going experience" (Tate et al. 295). Statistics say it to be true, but what they do not show is the extra life these students may have outside the college classroom. At the end of this research, I want to be able to say it was focused on career development and equal access to education, not the negatives of being a FGS.