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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.
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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
An Annual Celebration of First-Gen College Students
One of my interests is in what poor and working-class students learn about themselves via messages that they get from
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