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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.

FirstGen Forward announces new class of Network Members
FEATURE | August 01, 2024

FirstGen Forward announces inaugural class of Network Champion Institutions
FEATURE |

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.