“I feel like there’s a lot more at stake for this, ’cause it’s not just a grade; it’s an experience, something that will change my life.”
—are spending their junior years in Barcelona and London, Paris and Rome; for many, these international sojourns are an expectation and a rite of passage. But what about first-generation college students who have to beg off work, suspend family responsibilities, and scrape up enough money for a few short weeks overseas? What does study abroad mean to them?Today, approximately 30 percent of incoming first-year students in U.S.
” Even when parents don’t present obstacles, extended family members often discourage first-generation college students from pursuing study abroad. Yareli Martinez Cabrera, a 20-year-old Latina co-enrolled at a community college and a large public university, described her grandmother’s and aunts’ responses to her plans to study abroad in Ecuador: “What I’m getting from my family isMany first-generation students view study abroad as an opportunity reserved for wealthy white peers.
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