Destabilizing Bills, No Family Wealth: The Need for Campus Emergency Funds
The Hope Center has released a new analysis of emergency financial assistance on college campuses, and the news is not
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When I was an undergraduate, I did volunteer work with a remarkable 2nd grade teacher in an elementary school in
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Even More Unequal Childhoods
If I were in charge, I'd have a session during first-year orientation in which I challenged all the
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
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