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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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Who Lives in Education Deserts?

For most college students, place matters. And closer is often better. But what happens when there’s no college nearby?

The Chronicle of Higher Education / July 17, 2018
UNCG McNair
Summer Research Experience Prepares First-gen, Minority Students for Graduate School

This summer, 17 first-generation and traditionally underrepresented students conducted research and prepared for graduate school at UNCG.

UNCG Now / July 16, 2018
Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg
A first-generation college student: Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg

Assistant professor at NIU is working to kick-off an event to create community for first-generation college students, faculty and staff.

NUI Today / July 16, 2018
Books on Shelf
Free Digital Textbooks vs. Purchased Commercial Textbooks

Open educational resources have saved students millions of dollars, but can they also improve students’ grades?

Inside Higher Ed / July 16, 2018
Convening Interview: Jennifer Keup

Hear from Director of the National Resource Center on the First-year Experience and Students in Transition, Jennifer Keup, Ph.D., as she shares her commitment to advancing first-generation student success through the lens of the National Resource Center.

FirstGen Forward / July 12, 2018
Parental Support Key to Student Success

Family emotional support for low-income first-year students is free, and a new study shows that it has a greater impact on student outcomes than financial support.

Inside Higher Ed / July 11, 2018
Marisel Herera
Caring (Courageously) at Scale

First opened in 2012, the First-Year Success Center at Arizona State University serves 17,000 students annually through a variety of peer coaching services.

Marisel Herrera M.Ed. / July 11, 2018
Legacy College Admission
How Much Does Being a Legacy Help Your College Admissions Odds?

Highly selective colleges have pledged to become more socioeconomically diverse, but continue to give the edge to legacy applicants.

The Wall Street Journal / July 09, 2018
Celebrating Students
Is U.S. higher education headed for ‘Wild West’ tumult?

Higher education is more than a series of classes or a piece of paper, especially to first-generation students.

The Hechinger Report / July 09, 2018
Nicole Hurd
Apps Can Help Advise First-Generation Students.

College Advising Corps commits to investing the nations young people, particularly first-generation college students, to advance themselves.

The Chronicle of Higher Education / July 09, 2018
university campus fall leaves
Up to 20 Percent of High School Students Plan to Go to College but Don’t Show Up

In the phenomenon known as summer melt, as many as 20 percent of students who are accepted to college don’t start classes in the fall

The 74 / July 09, 2018
Financial aid letters are really, really confusing

Analyzing over 500 financial aid letters, researchers found that different schools use wildly varying, and frequently confusing, language to describe grants and loans.

The Week / July 07, 2018
Nudge Advising
Applying nudge strategies to higher education

More educators should embrace behavioral interventions to improve graduation rates among first-generation and underrepresented students in the US.

The Times Higher Education / July 06, 2018
Convening Interview: Richard Irwin

Vice Provost for Academic Innovation and Support Services at the University Memphis, Richard Irwin, Ed.D., shares his views on the biggest barriers in advancing first-generation student success and more.

FirstGen Forward / July 06, 2018
Texarkana
More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

New data show little progress in retaining students, despite efforts to plug the leak

The Hechinger Report / July 05, 2018
When Students Come First

Two programs improve outcomes for first-generation students by providing stability, support and sense of community

BizEd / July 01, 2018
male mentor with diverse group of students
Educating the First Generation

St. Johns University turns to mentoring and experiential learning programs to retain first-generation and at-risk students

BizEd / June 29, 2018
Student Walking through a Door
First-Generation Strategies

How higher education can clear away obstacles and open doors to better serve underrepresented student populations

BizEd / June 29, 2018