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Being the First: What it Means to be a First-generation College Student   Higher education is changing. As the college-going population in America shifts to include a larger...

America’s elite colleges are facing growing calls to end the decades-old tradition of giving an admissions boost to the children of alumni.

How precollege experiences and students’ identities shape the challenges they face and connections they make in postsecondary education.

JMU has seen an increase in applications from diverse populations after joining the Common Application.

For Gabrielle Davis, being a first-generation student at Penn State means “breaking boundaries” for her family and being “limitless” and “optimistic.”

/PRNewswire/ -- On November 8, 2021, the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) and the Center for First-generation Student Success will lead the national...

The narrative of the wild-and-free 20-something is far from reality for many.

9:56 pm UTC May. 21, 2021 Guillermina Gutierrez Martinez picked at her cuticles and let out a shaky breath. Her left leg bounced nervously as her right foot nudged the accelerator. She balled up her fist and pushed away a tear, clearing her vision of the road ahead.  Will they think I’m a failure? Will they lie to their friends because they’re ashamed? Crammed into her 2007 Ford Fusion were remnants of her life in the University of Washington dorms: A king-size grey Mexican blanket, stora...

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  Publishers Note: This post appears here courtesy of ECU News Services. The author of this post is Crystal Baity. Jocelyne Alfaro-Ruiz is a first-generation student and president of the student-led I’m the First organization at ECU. | Photo: Rhett Butler Left to right, Cheyenne Kober, Kayla Brown, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Dr. Virginia Hardy, Jocelyne Alfaro-Ruiz and Mohammad Sarsour attended the National First-Generation Celebration in 2019. | Photo: Contributed    Being the fi...