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Why first-generation students need mentors who get them
When Jennine Capó Crucet was a college freshman, her parents stayed for her entire orientation. It wasn’t because they especially wanted to; they just didn’t know what they were meant to do. As a first-generation college student, Crucet was not…
First-generation college attendees test out campus life
Colleges are working harder to provide summer experiences for top high school students who may be the first in their families to attend college.
These groups of Asian-Americans rarely attend college, but California is trying to change that
As one group of Asians who don’t go to college in large numbers, the Hmong help illustrate the complex changing demographics of students arriving at American universities and colleges: increasingly nonwhite, low-income, and first-generation.
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