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Resources for First Generation Families

Interested in learning more about first generation (FGEN) students, its history in higher education, and how you can help support your own child? Here are several resources that can help foster understanding and conversation about going to college for the first time.

Videos/Slideshows

  • Who We Are: First-Generation College Students Speak Out (video)
  • Academic Culture Shock: First-Generation College Students Step Up to College Work (audio slideshow)
  • Becoming a Scholar: Bright Academic Futures for First-Generation Students (audio slideshow)

Websites

  • I’m First: Online Community for First-Generation Students 
  • First in the Family: Advice about College from First-Generation Students
  • Advising First-Generation Students, National Academic Advising Association
  • Making Excellence Inclusive, American Association of Colleges & Universities

Articles

  • The relationship between first-generation college status and co-curricula engagement on the university satisfaction of students
  • How First Generation Students are helping each other through college

Reports

  • First-Generation Students in Postsecondary Education: A Look at Their College Transcripts
  • First-Generation Students: Undergraduates Whose Parents Never Enrolled in Postsecondary Education

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