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First-Generation Student Graduates With Honors and Shares Her College Experience

An interview with a first-generation college student and how she became first in her family to graduate from college.

Huffington Post / June 09, 2014

It Is Not Just About Finding a Job, It Is About Finding a Fit

Four things student should focus on in college that will have the effect of helping to prepare to succeed in environments that may be alien.

Huffington Post / May 26, 2014

Film Explores Difficult Road To College For ‘First Generation’ Students (VIDEO)

Documentary explores the journey of four different high school students hoping to become the first members of their family to attend college.

Huffington Post / April 01, 2014

First Generation

An award-winning documentary, First Generation tells the story of four high school students who are pursuing a college education.

Go College! Now / November 19, 2011

NASPA

NASPA is a member-centered association supporting a diverse and passionate network of 15,000 professionals and 1,200 institutions across the globe. It is the professional home for the field of student affairs and is dedicated to cultivating student success in collaboration with the missions of its institutional members—a network of colleges and universities representing every sector of higher education.

Understanding the First-generation Student Identity

Explore the mindset institutions are adopting and the approaches being implemented to improve first-generation student success and completion.

2018 National Landscape Analysis of First-generation Student Success Programs at Four-year Institutions /

FirstGen Forward announces inaugural class of Network Champion Institutions

Fourteen new institutions selected as FirstGen Forward Network Champions; recognized as national leaders in advancing first-generation student success

TSC Urges Congress to Increase Support

The Center joined with fifteen organizations as members of the Today's Students Coalition to advocate for additional financial support for college students in future COVID-19 funding legislation.

Shifting Institutional Priorities for First-generation Success

Explore the mindset institutions are adopting and the approaches being implemented to improve first-generation student success and completion.

2018 National Landscape Analysis of First-generation Student Success Programs at Four-year Institutions /

The Suder Foundation

The Suder Foundation was founded from Eric and Deborah Suders’ vision to design an innovative program that would dramatically increase the graduation rates of first-generation college students—those who are first in their family to attend college. For several years prior to starting the foundation, the Suders endowed scholarships at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) and West Virginia University (WVU) in order to help students with middle-range academic credentials and financial need who wanted to go to college but couldn’t afford it. They naïvely thought that financial assistance alone would assure the students’ success. They quickly learned this was not the case and most recently amplified investment in first-generation student success

Country & Technical Guidance - Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

A technical guidance sorted by topic.

World Health Organization /

First-generation Learnings from the Front Lines

Practical insights and recommendations four-year institutions can implement to improve first-generation student success and completion.

2018 National Landscape Analysis of First-generation Student Success Programs at Four-year Institutions /