First Generation
Tim’s Tips: First Generation Focus
First Generation Focus Inside Higher Education March 23, 2012 – 3:00am By Teresa Heinz Housel First generation college students (or FGS) comprise a student population that is routinely overlooked at American colleges and universities. These students, whose parents have attained neither a bachelor’s nor an associate degree, are more likely to encounter academic, financial, professional, [...]
Tim’s Tips: To Guide First-Generation Students, U. of Nebraska Reaches Into High Schools
February 26, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education To Guide First-Generation Students, U. of Nebraska Reaches Into High Schools By Joanna Chau As an eighth grader in Grand Island, Neb., Abel Covarrubias dreamed of attending the University of Nebraska’s flagship campus, in Lincoln. It was only about 100 miles away, but he had no sense [...]
Tim’s Tips: Me or We
Me or We Inside Higher Education March 1, 2012 – 3:00am By Mitch Smith Those innocent-seeming brochures imploring students to find their passions and express themselves may be helping to widen the socioeconomic achievement gap, a new study finds. A team of researchers led by Nicole M. Stephens, an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg [...]
Tim’s Tips: Working with Non-Traditional Students
Working with Non-Traditional Students Inside Higher Education February 16, 2012 – 9:20pm By Lee Bessette You would think from my two posts from this week that I am heartless and unfeeling when it comes to my students and the challenges they face to achieve college success. And while my own background is fairly “traditional” and [...]
Separate Dorms for First-Generation Freshmen?
Separate Dorms for First-Generation Freshmen? December 16, 2011, 5:19 pm By Richard Kahlenberg The Chronicle recently featured a story about the University of Kentucky’s initiative to provide a separate experimental residence hall for students who are the first in their family to attend college. The new residence hall, according to reporter Lacey Johnson, is “created [...]
Tim’s Tips: At the U. of Kentucky, First-Generation Freshmen Get a Residence of Their Own
December 4, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education At the U. of Kentucky, First-Generation Freshmen Get a Residence of Their Own By Lacey Johnson When Brittany Boreing heard she had received a special scholarship for students who are the first in their families to attend college, she cried. The extra $5,000 a year would be [...]
Tim’s Tips: At UC-San Diego, First-Generation Students Get Help From Retired Professors
June 19, 2011 At UC-San Diego, First-Generation Students Get Help From Retired Professors Experienced scholars guide the uninitiated in an unusual mentoring program UC San Diego The Chronicle of Higher Education At an end-of-year reception, first-generation students receive congratulatory remarks from the chancellor of the U. of California at San Diego. Emeritus professors served [...]