Research Blog #6: Visual

• Engle, Jennifer, Vincent Tinto, and Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in,Higher   Education. Moving Beyond Access: College Success for Low-Income, First-Generation Students. Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2008. Print.

The visual illustrates a few factors that challenge first-generation college students. The study focused on multiple variables including delayed enrollment, average distance from home, off-campus residency, and part-time or full-time work. The groups studied were low-income first-generation, low-income or first-generation only, and not low-income and not first-generation students. According  to the research, most low-income, first-generation students live on average, closer to home and/or off-campus. As well, they are more likely to work at least part-time. The visual is significant because it supports the idea that first-generation students are easily isolated from campus life because they work or commute. Most importantly, it supports the existence of statistical difference between first-generation and non-first-generation students.