Retention of First-year Undergraduate Engineering Students: Role of Psychosocial Interventions Targeting First-generation College Students
Author(s) -
Jennifer Paz,
Margo Cousins,
Cindy Wilson,
Mia K. Markey
Publication year - 2015
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.18260/p.24675
Subject(s) - belongingness , psychosocial , psychological intervention , first generation , population , psychology , medical education , diversity (politics) , disadvantage , medicine , political science , social psychology , psychiatry , environmental health , law
Jennifer Paz is a graduate student of the Department of Educational Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Texas State University in 2011. She is currently working with Dr. Mia Markey in the Biomedical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin in a project aimed at improving retention rates of first-generation engineer students.
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