What We Need to Succeed: College Students Speak Out

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What We Need to Succeed: College Students Speak Out

Students talk about what they need to succeed in college and share their experiences trying to access resources and find community. This podcast draws from student-led conversations with Partnership for College Completion’s 2022-23 Student Advisory Council. Check out the report at partnershipfcc.org.

Episodes

  1. FEB 5

    Finding a chosen family: Student support and student labor

    In this episode, we hear from college students about the importance of relationships with other students when it comes to accessing information and support on campus. Students also talk about how universities often rely on unpaid labor of students of color to make up for gaps in what institutions provide. Episode Notes: Sources for research mentioned in this episode: Guillaume, Rene and Elizabeth C. Apodaca. “Early career faculty of color and promotion and tenure: the intersection of advancement in the academy and cultural taxation.” Race Ethnicity and Education 25, no. 4. (2022). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613324.2020.1718084?role=button&needAccess=true&journalCode=cree20 Lerma, Veronica, Laura T. Hamilton, and Kelly Nielsen. “Racialized Equity Labor, University Appropriation and Student Resistance.” Social Problems 67, no. 2. (2020). https://academic.oup.com/socpro/article-abstract/67/2/286/5488730?redirectedFrom=PDF Linder, Chris, Stephen John Quaye, Alex C. Lange, Ricky Ericka Roberts, Marvette C. Lacy, and Wilson Kwamogi Okello. “‘A Student Should Have the Privilege of Just Being a Student’: Student Activism as Labor.” The Review of Higher Education 42. (2019). https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/724910/pdf

    20 min

  2. JAN 29

    The staff who had my back: What students need from mentors and advisors

    In this episode, college students share what they need from mentorship and advising relationships. Students talk about wanting mentors with shared identities, and more career-focused mentorship and advising. The episode closes with students talking about the importance of recognizing students’ needs and meeting them where they are in advising relationships. Sources for research mentioned in this episode: Crisp, Gloria, Vicki L. Baker, Kimberly A. Griffin, Laura Gail Lunsford, and Meghan J. Pifer. “Mentoring Undergraduate Students.” ASHE Higher Education Report 43, no. 1. (2017). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1166861 Ortiz-Walters, Rowena and Lucy L. Gibson. “Mentoring in academia: An examination of the experiences of proteges of color.” Journal of Vocational Behavior 67, no. 3. (2005). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001879104000983 Guillaume, Rene and Elizabeth C. Apodaca. “Early career faculty of color and promotion and tenure: the intersection of advancement in the academy and cultural taxation.” Race Ethnicity and Education 25, no. 4. (2022). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613324.2020.1718084?role=button&needAccess=true&journalCode=cree20 Williamson, Theresa, C. Rory Goodwin, and Peter A. Ubel. “Minority Tax Reform – Avoiding Overtaxing Minorities When We Need Them Most.” The New England Journal of Medicine 384. (2021). https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2100179 Kimberly A. Griffin. “Rethinking Mentoring,” Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity. (Routledge, 2019). https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429435140-6/rethinking-mentoring-kimberly-griffin?context=ubx&refId=aa04e679-7d59-4d0f-b3d4-90fd2605cb4e. Tara J. Plachowski. “Reflections of Preservice Teachers of Color: Implications for the Teacher Demographic Diversity Gap,” Critical Multicultural Education: Working at the Intersections of Resistance, Restorative Justice, and Revolutionary Change. (2019). https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/9/2/144.

    29 min

  3. JAN 17

    Seeing what we actually need: Student experiences accessing resources

    This episode highlights college students’ experiences trying to access resources and support on their campuses. The conversation focuses on three barriers they encountered: access to information about resources, logistics and scheduling, and previous negative experiences. To close out the episode, students share their thoughts on solutions to these problems. Episode Notes: Sources for research mentioned in this episode: Engle, Jennifer and Vincent Tinto. Moving Beyond Access: College Success for Low-Income, First-Generation Students. (2008). https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED504448.pdf Muraskin, Lana and John Lee. Raising the Graduation Rates of Low-Income College Students. (2004). https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED490856.pdf Fernandez, Frank, Xiaodan Hu, and Matt Capaldi. Exploring Equitable Public Higher Education Funding Models in Illinois. (2023). https://partnershipfcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PCC_ExploringEquitableReport_Final.pdf Harper, Casandra E., Judy M. Kiyama, and Alice Eunjung Lee. “Communication Patterns Between Institutions and First-Generation College Students: A Multiple Case Study.” Journal of First-generation Student Success 2, no. 2. (2022). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26906015.2022.2080613

    31 min
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Students talk about what they need to succeed in college and share their experiences trying to access resources and find community. This podcast draws from student-led conversations with Partnership for College Completion’s 2022-23 Student Advisory Council. Check out the report at partnershipfcc.org.

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