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HAMPTON, VA., Nov. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the recent fall 2021 Hampton University Board of Trustees meeting, Mrs. Doretha J. Spells, Vice...

Endowment in name of Rev. Susan Pendleton Jones to assist first-generation students

President and First Lady Schulz, Chancellor Haynes hope their investments will inspire others to support new building on the WSU Tri-Cities campus.

  Imagine the first-generation students who end up at one of the top colleges in the country. They are largely from lower-income families and more likely to be minority students than the entire student body. They enter universities with amazing potential to provide academic and other resources. But are they well served? Are they happy? Should the universities be doing more? These are some of the questions Rachel Gable answers in The Hidden Curriculum: First Generation Students at Legacy Universities (Princeton University Press). Gable, director of institutional effectiveness at Virginia Com...

Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC Among other findings, Harvard’s 2019 “pulse survey,” the foundation for much of the University’s current work on diversity and inclusion, revealed pronounced gaps between first-generation students and almost every other cohort in their degree of comfort within the community. In response to the baseline prompt, “I feel like I belong at Harvard,” just 59 percent of students whose parents had a middle-school education or less agreed; the figure was just 68 percent among those whose parents had high-school degrees. In contrast, among students, faculty...