Selective Omissions in What Campuses Tell First-Gen Students About Themselves
I listen closely to campus messaging for what first-generation college students learn about themselves via available support programming. These programs
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State Disparities in Resources for Families and Children
One possible measure of the shallowness of privileged families' actual beliefs in "merit" is how intentionally they
Authoring Our Own First-Gen Graduation Stories
It's graduation season, so I want to repost this piece that I wrote very early in the life
The Simplified FAFSA: Good News
How is the new, long-awaited simplification of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) working? Pretty well, according to
Learning about Inclusion Off On Our Own
I follow FirstGen Forward both to learn how campuses are serving first-gen students and to track what this influential national
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Complicating "Belonging"
I often read in the first-gen student literature about the importance of a sense of "belonging" for student
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They're Taxing Student Debt Forgiveness as Income. Really.
I cannot imagine what it must be like to be in debt with student loans in these chaotic political times.
College Access as "Affluence Replication"
For years, college access programs (and first-gen support programs on campuses) have been based on the premise that the path
Asking the Wrong Questions 2: Campus First-Gen Supports
I wrote a recent post about how the assumptions of the powerful often shape the questions that researchers ask about
Tressie McMillan Cottom on the "Meritocracy"
If there's one thing that I might wish for in support programming for first-generation students on campus, it
Court Rules Against DOE on Some TRIO grant cancellation
A bit of good news. A district court judge has ruled that the Department of Education did not follow the
Resource: Learning About Student Basic Needs Insecurity
The Hope Center has released a very good video introduction to Student Basic Needs Insecurity. This would be am excellent