Describing the First-Year Experience for First-Time-in-College Students at Major Community College

Some educators, researchers and policymakers have come to believe that minority parents and families somehow want less for their own children. We see the manifestation of this myth in statements such as “They don’t see the value of an education,” and “They want their children to go to work if and when they graduate from high school,” or “They get in the way of their children’s future by insisting they not leave their hometown when they attend college.”