Socio-Academic Integration and What It Means to Your Institution and Your Students

As low-income, rural community college students struggle to find their place & space at their institutions to achieve socio-academic integration, current research fails to fully examine the hardships that are placed on this population of students or how they navigate these environments for ultimate success. This session examines how the low-income, first-year, rural community college students experiences, demands & barriers determine their persistence to graduation & continued enrollment.

First Learning Outcome: Understand barriers with rural low-income students related to socio-academic integration 

Second Learning Outcome: Understanding how socio-academic integration plays a role in what a student defines as success

Third Learning Outcome: Development of Holistic practices to establish paths to student success and graduation

Core Competency: Holistic and Systemic Thinking

Proficiency: Enrollment Management Proficiencies

Presenter(s): 

Henrietta Romero New Mexico Highlands University