Stony Brook's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has many first-generation students representing the ...

First-generation college students come from all sorts of backgrounds and bring myriad perspectives to the University of South Carolina campus. At USC, about one-fifth of the student population — more ...

Those headlines could be from today. In fact, they’re more than 20 years old. In the early 2000s, computer-science ...

In reflecting on my experiences as a first-generation student, many of my challenges were related to unwritten college norms, ranging from academic policies to social conventions. When I entered ...

First-generation students make up half of all undergraduates, but only one quarter of them retain and graduate with a degree. A recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed ...

Emily Raygoza grew up without a road map to college. Neither her mother, who was raised in an unstable household, nor her father, who was deported to Mexico before he graduated from high school, had ...