Giants Among Us: First-Generation College Graduates Who Lead Activist Lives

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First-Generation College Graduates Who Lead Activist Lives Sandria Rodriguez Giants among Us Giants among Us Vanderbilt Issues in Higher Education is a timely series that focuses on the three core functions of higher education: teaching, research, and service. Interdisciplinary in nature, it concentrates not only on how these core functions are carried out in colleges and universities but also on the contributions they make to larger issues of social and economic development, as well as various organizational, political, psychological, and social forces that influence their fulfillment and evolution. Series Editor John M. Braxton Peabody College, Vanderbilt University Editorial Advisory Board Ann Austin (Michigan State University) Marcia B. Baxter Magolda (Miami University) Alan E. Bayer (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) Ellen M. Brier (Vanderbilt University) Clifton F. Conrad (University of Wisconsin) Mary Frank Fox (Georgia Institute of Technology) Roger L. Geiger (Pennsylvania State University) Hugh Davis Graham (Vanderbilt University) Lowell Hargens (Ohio State University) James C. Hearn (University of Minnesota) George D. Kuh (Indiana University) Michael T. Nettles (University of Michigan) John C. Smart ((University of Memphis) Joan S. Stark (University of Michigan) William G. Tierney (University of Southern California) Caroline S. Turner (Arizona State University) ...