Counseling, Higher Education & Special Education

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The departments within the College of Education were reorganized and renamed as of July 1, 2011. This department incorporates the former departments of Counseling & Personnel Services; Education Leadership, Higher Education & International Education (excluding Organizational Leadership & Policy Studies); and Special Education.

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    Going for Broke: A Phenomenological Study of How First-Generation Students Make Meaning of College Financial Aid
    (2021) Hiscock, Joshua Ian; Griffin, Kimberly A.; Counseling and Personnel Services; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    The purpose of this study was to add to our understanding of how first-generation students make meaning of financial aid and the process of paying for college. The study sought to understand the emergence of self-authorship and other developmental outcomes that come from this experience. Using a phenomenological research methodology situated within a constructivist epistemological paradigm, this study explored the primary research questions: (1) What does it mean to pay for college as a first-generation student? (a) How do first-generation college students understand the process and decision making before enrolling in college? (b) How does this understanding evolve during their time as an undergraduate? (2) Does understanding of financial aid and the process of paying for college inform first-generation students' development of self-authorship? If so, how?