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
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 this profile of a remarkable first-generation student graduating from UCLA this year, she describes her mother taking her to