Students Made Safer While Sleeping in Their Cars
The Hope Center estimates that 48% of college students experience housing insecurity. At Long Beach City College, administrators with few
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Poor and Working-Class Students as Collateral Damage
This is a good short essay on how congress has all but abandoned the commitment of the 1965 Higher Education
Winding Down College Access Programs: The Latest TRIO Cuts
For decades, federal TRIO programs have been the backbone of support for low-income, first-generation students. Through a suite of programs,
When Power Working Against Equitable Education Becomes (Very) Visible
On the one hand, it's very good that the most recent "landscape analysis" released by First-Gen
First-Gen Student "Assets" That We Don't Talk Enough About
I see so many authors writing about first generation students drawing on (parts of) Tara Yosso's article about
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Pretending That Playing Fields in Science are Equal
At the University of Texas San Antonio, 44% of the undergraduates are the first in their families to attend college.
When Advice on Academic Publishing Misses
First Gen Forward has released a new resource guide: Scholarly Writing Insights: A Guide for First-gen and Emerging Scholars, Faculty,
On Simply Explaining The Rules of the College Game
I've seen dozens of articles and essays talking about how so many first-gen/low income students don'
Celebrating (some parts of being) First-Generation Students
Over the holidays, I worked my way through FirstGen Forward's Instagram posts on the recent national First Gen
Trailblazers
Someday soon, I'm going to write an entire post on the ways in which campuses describe first-generation students
Who Tells Our Stories?
In a profile of Sarahy Torres, a remarkable first-generation student graduating from UCLA this year, she describes her mother taking