The following articles discuss some of the unique challenges that first-generation students may face in college. They also provide helpful information for faculty and staff to consider when designing programs and initiatives that seek to positively impact all students' collegiate experience.
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Moving Up Without Losing Your Way - the costs of social mobility in higher education (Inside Higher Ed, September 2019)
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The Impact of Parents' Education Levels (Inside Higher Ed, February 2018)
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New Research on First-Generation Students (Inside Higher Ed, September 2017)
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The Telltale Data That Can Identify College Students at Risk (The New York Time, June 2017)
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Rising from Poverty: Prosperity Grows out of Small-Town America (Minnesota Star Tribune, December 2016)
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Who Gets to Graduate? (The New York Times Magazine, May 2014)