Absent voices: Intersectionality and first-generation college students with disabilities

College students with disabilities stand at a crossroads when transitioning from high school to college, and yet, are often absent from discussions regarding underserved populations in higher education. This absence is particularly notable in scholarship employing the lens of intersectionality. To address this gap, this qualitative case study employs a strengths-based lens to examine how typically marginalized college students used the strengths of their socially constructed identities as a dynamic force to find keys to academic success

School counselors in action reframing professional development to engage families

Co llege enrollment rates in the U.S. have increased over the last 40 years, yet students from undcrservcd communities remain underrepresented. Families in these communities aspire for their children to go to college, but often lack access to the necessary social capital to transform aspirations for their children into action. Federal 6 initiatives focused on increasing educational attainment for students in underserved comn1tmities emphasize the critically important role of the school counselor. The school counselor is ideally positioned to reduce barriers to family engagement in the college access process. Yet, there is a lack of focused support and professional development resources for school counselors. To gain more in sight into how professional development might improve counselors\u27 abilities to support family engagement in college access, I employed an action-oriented qualitative case study to critically consider how urban school counselors took action to address local educational inequities and engage families as partners in the postsecondary process

School counselors in action reframing professional development to engage families

Co llege enrollment rates in the U.S. have increased over the last 40 years, yet students from undcrservcd communities remain underrepresented. Families in these communities aspire for their children to go to college, but often lack access to the necessary social capital to transform aspirations for their children into action. Federal 6 initiatives focused on increasing educational attainment for students in underserved comn1tmities emphasize the critically important role of the school counselor. The school counselor is ideally positioned to reduce barriers to family engagement in the college access process. Yet, there is a lack of focused support and professional development resources for school counselors. To gain more in sight into how professional development might improve counselors\u27 abilities to support family engagement in college access, I employed an action-oriented qualitative case study to critically consider how urban school counselors took action to address local educational inequities and engage families as partners in the postsecondary process

Counseling in the 21st Century: An Actionable Case Study of a University-K-12 Partnership

The national postsecondary educational attainment gap is magnified and being experienced in local K-12 school districts on a large scale. As a result, K-12 administrators at the local county office of education (COE) were seeking a partnership to assess and implement programming to address the local educational attainment gap

Counseling in the 21st Century: An Actionable Case Study of a University-K-12 Partnership

The national postsecondary educational attainment gap is magnified and being experienced in local K-12 school districts on a large scale. As a result, K-12 administrators at the local county office of education (COE) were seeking a partnership to assess and implement programming to address the local educational attainment gap