Mara Tieken's new book Educated Out Educated Out shares the stories of nine rural, first-generation students navigating life at an elite liberal arts college. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College) ...

In Hartford and beyond, there are resources for high school students who want to become first-generation college students.

First-generation students face a host of barriers when they go to college. Terms commonly used in higher ed, like “registrar,” “provost” or “credit hours,” can be mystifying. They’re confronted with a ...

New Jersey City University (NJCU) and its Guarini Institute for International Education and Economic Mobility has announced ...

We shouldn’t be foisting the label on individual students—but that doesn’t mean we can’t do more to make campuses more ...

Being a first-generation college student was important to me. It provided me with an opportunity to create a path that my family and future generations of children could follow to ensure we obtain ...

・Federal law defines a first-generation college student as someone whose parent or parents did not complete a four-year degree, but colleges sometimes use their own definitions. ・First-generation ...

Sandra Bulmer was a first generation college student who had to pay her own way through school. Now she’s leading a college, Southern Connecticut State University, whose students largely mirror her ...

The completion gap between first-generation college students and their continuing-generation peers represents one of ...

Royer Lopez founded the Mi Leyenda Foundation with his wife, Angie Chavez-Lopez, both first-generation college graduates from CU Boulder. Lopez, who graduated from Greeley West High School as a ...

A federal program called TRIO that provides tutoring and other support to non-traditional college students, like veterans, ...

First-Gen at Purdue University. First-generation students are defined as those students that come from families where their parents or guardians did not complete a four-year college degree. Every year ...