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Find the latest from the Center, learn new and innovative approaches from colleagues, and engage with current mainstream media conversations on first-generation student success. In addition to the filters below, please utilize the “search” bar in the top, right corner to search by keyword, author name, or publication title.

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Center Newsletter 4.20.21

In this edition: Inaugural Journal Issue; #FGSS21 Early Reg; #Comm_College Awareness; Center Online Learning

FirstGen Forward / April 20, 2021
ANU First-Generation Celebration 2021

The Australian National University hosts its inaugural 'ANU First Generation Celebration.'

Ash Dowling / April 14, 2021
Reopening Plans Must Meet Students’ Mental Health Needs

Access to vaccines and healthcare are top priorities, but administrators must prepare to meet the mental health needs of their campuses' students.

Diverse Issues in Higher Education / April 14, 2021
Time and Change: Supporting First-gen Students at The Ohio State University

Moving through and beyond COVID-19, this blog shares how one university is supporting the success of first-generation students despite an unprecedented year of change.

Chila Thomas, Ed.D. / April 07, 2021
Narrating First-gen Mentorship at the University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming launches a first-generation mentorship program with an eye toward effective storytelling.

Seth Swanner, Ph.D. / April 07, 2021
Student Success: Implementing Big Changes to Retain First-generation Student Cohorts

The University of Central Florida is making big changes in first time-in-college, first-generation student success!

Tammie L. Nadeau, Ed.S. / April 07, 2021
Mānoa Access Initiative (MAI): Disrupting the Status Quo

Learn about the unique partnership between academic and student affairs through the University of Hawai’i’s MAI program that helps support our first-generation students.

J. Māhealani Quirk & Jennifer Pagala Barnett / April 07, 2021
Students around table
#AdvocateFirstgen: It's Time to #DoublePell

The Center is proud to #AdvocateFirstgen by joining the effort to restore the purchasing power of Pell Grants.

FirstGen Forward / April 06, 2021
Center Newsletter 4.6.21

In this edition: #FGSS21 Early Reg; #AdvocateFirstgen; #FirstgenScholarship Submissions; First Scholars

FirstGen Forward / April 06, 2021
FAFSA Application
Why Students Aren't Filling Out the FAFSA

Low-income and first-generation students find it difficult to fill it out, and they fill it out themselves, EAB survey finds.

Inside Higher Ed / April 06, 2021
Virginia Tech Building
First-Gen Institute Highlights Social Class, Institutional Responsibilities

To support first-generation students at the institutional level, students’ own experiences need to be validated through programming.

Diverse Issues in Higher Education / April 02, 2021
Our Mission and Moving Forward

As we reflect and think ahead, it is clear our cross-divisional and university-wide collaborations have allowed us to set the foundation for sustainable support during this past year.

Rachael Heard, M.A. / March 31, 2021
Ending the First-generation Student Status

Shippensburg University is committed to ending the first-generation student status.

Rochelle D. Plummer, M.S., M.A. / March 31, 2021
Progress at the University of Mississippi to Support First-gen Students

The University of Mississippi has found a way to make progress supporting first-gen students, even during COVID-19.

Michael Smith / March 24, 2021
A 360° Approach to First-Year Student Success

The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville is addressing all aspects of first-year student success.

Mary Margaret Hui, Ed.D. / March 24, 2021
Center Newsletter 3.16.21

In this edition: Inaugural Journal Issue; #FGSS21 Deadline Extended; Gearing up for #NASPA21; First Scholars; Using Center Resources

FirstGen Forward / March 16, 2021
Claiming our Mo’olelo: First-generation Narratives from UH Mānoa

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoaʻs inaugural First Generation College Celebration builds community through Moʻolelo.

J. Māhealani Quirk / March 11, 2021
Intersectional identities of First-generation students

Winthrop University highlights the intersectional identities of first-generation students and how that is used as a focus of our collaborative work.

Kinyata Adams Brown, M.A. / March 10, 2021