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ArticleCBE life sciences education2026

"It's because of me - I made myself get here": First-Generation College Students in STEM Motivations for, and Experiences with, Academic Advising.

Desirée Forsythe, Amy C Moors, Quaylan Allen, Jeremy L Hsu

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Article in CBE life sciences education, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Desirée ForsytheBiology, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States of America,95053.ORCID 0000-0001-5582-4427
Amy C MoorsPsychology, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States of America, 92866.ORCID 0000-0003-0956-9626
Quaylan AllenEducation,Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States of America, 92866.ORCID 0000-0001-5341-5312
Jeremy L HsuBiology, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States of America, 92866.ORCID 0000-0001-5600-2345

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Academic advising plays a major role in shaping undergraduate life sciences students' experiences through college. However, despite the critical nature of advising, there have been relatively few studies examining students' experiences with advising and how these experiences may influence their academic journeys. Here, we investigate first-generation college students' experiences with academic advising in biology and throughout STEM. Through the lens of community cultural wealth, we found several themes such as balancing independence and pressures to succeed, identity as a source for empowerment and motivation, wanting reassurance and support from advisors, as well as negative outcomes during interactions with advisors. We also provide recommendations from student participants on how to improve academic advising. This research adds to the limited, but growing, body of literature on academic advising broadly, and within biology and other STEM fields specifically.

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BiologyMotivationScienceStudentsTechnologyFemaleHumansUniversities

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PMID42207842
PMCPMC13229126

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