Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The Center is a source of evidence-based practices, professional development, and knowledge creation for the higher education community to advance the success of first-generation students.

This 2018 report, lead by the Center for First-generation Student Succes, details how institutions are serving first-generation students, the challenges they encounter in providing support, and how first-generation students perceive their institutional experience.

Bewilderment about how to navigate the college experience hits first-generation students harder than it does others. Such students face significant financial, cultural, and educational barriers. Yet they enroll in college in significant numbers, with about a quarter of new freshmen reporting that their parents had no postsecondary education. The articles in this collection examine colleges’ strategies for helping those students adjust and excel.

Demetriou, Cynthia; Meece, Judith; Eaker-Rich, Deborah; Powell, Candice. Journal of College Student Development; Baltimore Vol. 58, Iss. 1, (Jan 2017): 19-36.

Julia C. Duncheon, December 2015