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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Jar Is Half-Empty and the Jar Is Half-Full: Challenges and Opportunities in Graduating First-Generation African American Undergraduates
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Brown, O. Gilbert – Critical Questions in Education, 2011
A gap exists between the degree to which African Americans embrace the cultural value of higher education attainment (Butchart, 1988; Du Bois, 1935; Mickelson & Greene, 2006; Washington, 1900; Woodson, 1919) and the reality of their unsatisfactory undergraduate degree attainment at traditional white institutions (TWIs) (Allen, 1992; Allen,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Undergraduate Students, African American Students, Graduation