However, researchers note that first-generation students who do complete their degrees often demonstrate strong motivation to continue their education. According to an RTI International report, 65% of ...

Jesse McCain, a graduate student at the University of Virginia, says there is a mistaken belief that graduate students have “somehow shed the challenges of being the first in their families to ...

In the fall of 2019, Noro Andriamanalina said she started conversations at the University of Minnesota’s Graduate School to identify the gaps in support services for first-generation students in ...

A panel of six first-generation graduate students spoke to students Thursday as part of First-Generation Week at MSU. The event, developed in collaboration with the MSU Graduate School and ...

Graduate students at the University of Maine have been seeking a union contract since March 2023. Graduate student workers at ...

The spotted lantern fly, the seemingly inescapable pest found throughout Pennsylvania, has the potential to decimate ...

THADDEUS STEVENS COLLEGE. LOOK QUICKLY AT THE REFLECTIVE VESTS AND HARD HATS, AND YOU MIGHT THINK THIS IS JUST ANOTHER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN LANCASTER CITY, BUT IT’S ACTUALLY THE FIRST GRADUATING ...

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Students who are the first in their family to attend college face financial, academic, and psychological challenges unlike students whose parents earned a college degree, and these challenges were ...