{"id":667,"date":"2015-02-10T10:21:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddce.utexas.edu\/aamri\/?p=667"},"modified":"2015-02-10T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T10:21:31","slug":"understanding-the-role-of-faith-in-decisions-to-persist-in-college-for-first-generation-black-male-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/understanding-the-role-of-faith-in-decisions-to-persist-in-college-for-first-generation-black-male-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the role of faith in decisions to persist in college for first-generation Black male students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asplund, L. K. (2009). Understanding the role of faith in decisions to persist in college for first-generation Black male students.\u00a0<em>Christian Perspectives in Education<\/em>,\u00a03(1), 1-15.<\/p>\n<p>While the admissions rate for Black students is now equivalent to that of White students, there is still a large gap in persistence and graduation rates. Among Black students there is a significant graduation rate gap between Black male and female students. The writer used a qualitative research design to make preliminary observations of the decisions to persist in college of a small sample of first-generation African American male students. As students in a Christian university, the dominant role of faith in decisions to persist emerged as an important theme.<\/p>\n<p>Full article can be found here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/digitalcommons.liberty.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&#038;context=cpe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asplund, L. K. (2009). Understanding the role of faith in decisions to persist in college for first-generation Black male students.\u00a0Christian Perspectives in Education,\u00a03(1), 1-15. While the admissions rate for Black students is now equivalent to that of White students, there is still a large gap in persistence and graduation rates.&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/understanding-the-role-of-faith-in-decisions-to-persist-in-college-for-first-generation-black-male-students\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"underline\">read more<\/span>&nbsp;<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10,682,70,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-higher-education-he","7":"tag-10","8":"tag-faith","9":"tag-graduation-rates","10":"tag-l-k-asplund","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}