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"Échale ganas": Family support of Latino/a community college students' transfer to four-year universities
Huriya Jabbar1, Carmen Serrata1, Eliza Epstein1
1Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, The University of Texas at Austin.
Abstract:
Families play a key role in students' school choices throughout their education. While research has explored the familial supports for high-school students transitioning to college for the first time, few scholars have examined how family engagement influences the decisions of current community-college students seeking to transfer to four-year universities. We explore how Latino communitycollege students' social ties to family played a role in the transfer process. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 56 Latino students in Central Texas, we find that families shaped students' "choice sets" and played a complex role, providing inspiration and emotional, informational, and financial supports, among others.
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