Students of California State
University Monterey Bay designed and conducted life history interviews
with university, high school, and middle school students from our campus
and the surrounding communities. These students are, or will be, first
in their families to go to college. Service Learning was part of our class
experience. We tutored and developed outreach in nearby public schools,
working with Upward Bound, Educational Talent Search, and AVID. These pages
synthesize our findings about the experience of first-generation college
students. This synthesis was researched and written collaboratively, in
teams. It was published in the CSUMB newspaper, The Otter Realm, and was
presented to a public audience in May, 1998. This page may be read as one
connected piece, or as separate topics. Links are provided to other course
materials - including the course syllabus, interview questions, bibliography.
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