UNDERRESOURCED STUDENTS AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH: Lessons from a McNair Scholars Program
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2023
Abstract
This chapter highlights a unique undergraduate research program for students from poor and working-class backgrounds and additional under-served student populations. It provides an overview of the McNair Scholars Program, highlights the program at Louisiana State University, and explains how the program is a form of capital that helps underserved students. The McNair Scholars Program is a US Department of Education-funded TRIO program designed for first-generation college students, students with poor or working-class backgrounds, or students who are from a racial/ethnic group underrepresented at the doctoral level. The chapter provides a brief description of each of the forms of capital included in T. J. Yosso’s cultural wealth model and how the McNair experience serves as a pathway to nurture underresourced students. It describes challenges and triumphs, and discusses on how undergraduate research programs can be scaled to reach more working-class students in the future.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Social Class Supports: Programs and Practices to Serve and Sustain Poor and Working-Class Students Through Higher Education
First Page
131
Last Page
143
Recommended Citation
Clayton, A., Davis, T., & Givens, J. (2023). UNDERRESOURCED STUDENTS AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH: Lessons from a McNair Scholars Program. Social Class Supports: Programs and Practices to Serve and Sustain Poor and Working-Class Students Through Higher Education, 131-143. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003446996-14