Les étudiants de première génération dans les universités : l’accès et la persévérance aux études au Canada

Abstract

Research in the United States shows that American first generation students (FGS) are less likely to attend university than students whose parents are college graduates (NFGS). Furthermore, those among American FGS who undertake a bachelor degree would have to overcome, throughout their college experience, obstacles related to their family’s background. Are the Canadian FGS experiencing the same educational disadvantages than their American counterparts? Using longitudinal data from Youth in Transition Survey (YITS), conducted from 2000 to 2005, this paper shows that, as seen in the American studies, Canadian FGS are less likely to attend university than NFGS. However, there is no difference in regards to academic persistence. FGS and NFGS have the same probability of obtaining a bachelor degree.

Postsecondary Inuit Students From Nunavut Pathways: When Students’ Satisfaction Meets Language Discrimination

“…Even if access to postsecondary education in Canada has significantly improved over the last several decades, there are still regional differencesnot only between the Northern and Southern regions, but also between provinces (Finnie et al, 2015). Some groups are also much more likely to be excluded from colleges and universities due to their socioeconomic background (Kamanzi et al, 2010) or culture (Robson et al, 2018), as is still very much the case for Indigenous Peoples (Statistics Canada, 2013). Participants in our study who spoke an Inuit language or both English and an Inuit language at home were generally satisfied with their postsecondary and professional experiences, even though their overall…”

“…Finally, we know from Kamanzi et al (2010) that first-generation students in Canada have a lesser chance of accessing higher education, but an equal chance of completing their studies once admitted. This means the major challenge for first-generation students across the country is getting into higher education in the first place.…”

Metamorphoses of the University and the Pathways of Indigenous Students in Quebec: Issues of Accessibility to Studies and Academic Persistence from a Perspective of the Decolonization of Education — A Secondary Publication

“…whose parents did not attend university. As mentioned by Pierre Canisius Kamanzi [32] , the concept of firstgeneration students (FGS) can be defined in terms of parental attendance or graduation. We have chosen to refer to the parents' university attendance, insofar as this experience testifies to a definite interest in higher education and concerns a population with a low graduation rate.…”

From Taking Ownership to Decolonization: Looking Back Over Five Decades of Indigenous Post-secondary Education in Quebec (English & French)

“…The typical profile of an Indigenous university student is that of a first-generation student (FGS) (i.e., a student whose parents did not attend university; Kamanzi et al, 2010) who is a mother in her 30s and who grew up in an Indigenous community speaking an Indigenous language. At the CEGEP level, this profile tends to be a woman in her 20s, predominantly FGS, and older compared to the non-Indigenous student population.…”

“…Le principal profil rencontré à l'université est celui des mères étudiantes de première génération (EPG), c'està-dire dont aucun des parents n'a fréquenté l'université (Kamanzi et al, 2010) 44), de santé (15), de sciences pures et appliquées (13), de sciences humaines et sociales ( 14), d'administration (7), d'arts (4) et de théologie (2). On observe aussi, parmi les quatre-vingt-trois participants de Dufour (2015a)provenant de plusieurs cégeps et universités, en plus de certains élèves du secondaire au Centre de formation de la main-d'oeuvre à Wendake -, des objectifs professionnels révélateurs de leurs intérêts pour les programmes d'études.…”