Opportunity Matters Journal

Opportunity Matters Journal is an open-access academic and creative journal where scholars, practitioners, students, parents and community leaders involved with educational opportunity programs can share their research, reports, ideas and creative works.

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Volume 5: Bridging Access, Opportunity, and Equity Through Education Attainment and Wellbeing

Volume 5 of Opportunity Matters Journal is official available for download! This edition dives into equity in higher education, featuring innovative practices, powerful narratives, and cutting-edge research.

What’s Inside:

  • Research on access, opportunity, and intersectionality
  • Practice briefs with actionable frameworks
  • Stories from students, alumni, and practitioners
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Volume 5: Bridging Access, Opportunity, and Equity Through Education Attainment and Wellbeing

Meet the Opportunity Matters Journal Editorial Board

We invited passionate individuals, including alumni, practitioners, and faculty, to join the Editorial Board for Volume 5 of the Opportunity Matters Journal (OMJ). The editors engaged in a masked peer-review process and assessed manuscripts for scholarly quality as well as adherence to the journal standards. Their contributions involved guiding manuscripts through an equity-minded review process and overseeing required revisions.

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2022

Volume 4: TRIO, The Next Forty Years

These articles focus on real-time practice and issues affecting the field and allow practitioners to re-frame our intention about creating spaces and opportunities that are inclusive, supportive, and relevant to higher education. The Pell Institute thanks the authors for their contributions and valuable knowledge to Volume IV, the first since 2017. The following essays are included in this volume:

  • Investigating Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Graduate School Enrollment Rates Among McNair Scholars by Stephaine M. Breen and Antoinette Newsome
  • Representation has changed: The need to update graduate student development theory to reflect marginalized populations’ experiences in the Ph.D. by Rachel Renbarger, David Rehfeld, Terrill Saxon, and Ariel Steele
  • “I Feel I matter a Little Less to the School”: Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lens of Latinx, Low-Income, and First-Generation Students in Washington State by Christina Torress García, Lizeth Bañuelos, and Alexandria Coronado
  • Entering the Unknown: What Are Possible Futures for TRIO? by John Groutt
  • The Unheard: What College Readiness Means to TRIO Parents by Kevin D. Todd and Reman S. Jabar
  • STEMTank – Implementing an Online Engineering Summer Camp for Underprivileged High School Students in Response to COVID-19 by Matthew J. Traum, Adrienne L. Provost, and Jodi Doher
  • TRIO Works: The Impact of Student Support Services on the Career Self-Efficacy of First-Generation Students by James K. Winfield
  • The Needs of Students Navigating College While Homeless: How the Federal TRIO Program Can Support Them by Bertha Fountain
  • First Gen/Gen Z: Reimagining Secondary Education Supports through Literacy Partnerships by Libby Adjei and Sarah J. Donovan
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