Dismantling Deficit Thinking: A strengths-based inquiry into the experiences of transfer students in and out of academic libraries

Abstract

In Brief Library research on transfer students tends to focus on the idea of the “struggling” transfer student and creating solutions to “fix” them. While we might assume transfer students will falter because they missed our institutions’ first-year offerings, this oversimplifies their vast and heterogeneous experiences. Our study complicates the narrative of the lagging transfer...