University of Vermont ScholarWorks @ UVM Graduate College Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses 2017 My Story as a First-Generation Student from Vietnamese Immigrant Backgrounds and Implications for Asian American Students Duy Nguyen University of Vermont Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Nguyen, Duy, "My Story as a First-Generation Student from Vietnamese Immigrant Backgrounds and Implications for Asian American Students" (2017). Graduate College Dissertations and Theses. 740. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/740 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks @ UVM. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate College Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ UVM. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. MY STORY AS A FIRST-GENERATION STUDENT FROM VIETNAMESE IMMIGRANT BACKGROUNDS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDENTS A Thesis Presented by Duy Nguyen to The Faculty of the Graduate College of The University of Vermont In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education Specializing in Interdisciplinary Studies May, 2017 Defense Date: March 3, 2017 Thesis Examination Committee: Robert Nash, Ed.D., Advisor Deborah Hunter, Ph.D., Chairperson Jason Garvey, Ph.D. Cynthia J. Forehand, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate College ABSTRACT: Expressing myself in my own voice has never felt so liberating and uplifting, especially when it comes to writing in the academic world. Thanks to the Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) methodology of Dr. Robert Nash, I have a chance to share my voice from my perspective as a marginalized student.