What does it mean to you to be a first generation graduate? It means a lot to me to be a first generation graduate because I feel like my graduation is a representation of all the hard work myself and ...

In May 2023, I became the first in my family to obtain a degree ... Now that I'm a broke, jobless graduate, I feel lonelier ...

Experts say it's common for first-generation students to feel out of place in higher education. “It’s not that you’re the impostor. It’s that you didn’t have information that others did ...

She also realized that her feelings of anxiety and depression made her feel guilty. “As a first-generation graduate, I expected to feel really good when I reached this milestone. But I didn’t ...

Byers remembers feeling like her peers knew something she didn’t when she was a first-generation college student and a first-generation graduate student: “I felt like there was this hidden instruction ...

The Office for Student Equity and the First Gen Family at Saint Mary’s College presented their second part of their “Being ___ and First Gen“ series, focusing on Black students who are also first ...