PO258: Planning for Postsecondary Options and First-Generation Student Success

  • PMD: 7,8
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 1: Promoting Diversity and Multicultural Competence in School Psychology

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. describe the postsecondary options available for first-generation students and the disparities that exist among the educational trajectories and financial outcomes;
  2. identify practices that support transition to postsecondary education for first-generation students with disabilities; and
  3. identify Tier 1 and advocacy practices that practitioners can engage in to support access to postsecondary education for first-generation students.

Description

This presentation will provide practitioners with knowledge and practices that can be used to promote postsecondary success in first-generation students with and without disabilities.

Presenter(s)

Emma M. Murphy, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Ximona L. Pederson, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
Olivia Holbrook, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
Sophia Pellizzer, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities

Contributor(s)

Katie J. George

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