The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Career services offices, like higher education more broadly, have struggled with access and opportunity issues for first-generation and low-income students. One result of this effort was the definition of robust campus-employer partnerships, co-created by BGEE campus teams, EWG members, and students.

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Close the Gap Foundation

MARCH 18, 2023

The team at Close the Gap (CtG), spoke with the many talented fellows and mentors about their experience with the Close the Gap Social Impact Fellowship program, as well as their support for the first generation, low income (FGLI) community. There is definitely a lot of trial and error and just trying to do enough to stand out.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Jordan also shares tips for admissions teams who want to communicate and work more effectively with CBOs to boost enrollment. JW: Yeah, I can definitely do that. How do you interact with these folks and who reaches out to whom and how and what's working and not working in that communication? laughter] 0:14:51.3 JW: That's great.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

But you move that along by having constant communication. It doesn't always make everybody happy, but it definitely makes it easier when everybody feels they're being listened to.” Some folks are never going to be satisfied. You're approachable.

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

A current Michigan student joins the discussion toward the end to share his journey as an aspiring first-generation college student and the impact that the fly-in weekend had on him. JA: Yeah, your program is definitely unique from many programs in those respects. Speaker 1: Hello. KW: Absolutely. Yeah, Kim, as you.

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EAB

AUGUST 29, 2023

So, this disconnected-ness that comes from I communicate with you from a distance, I don't communicate with you so much in face-to-face relationships. And in state, out-of-state, first generation or not, men, women, all of that. MR: And then finally, they're disengaged. And then neither party ends up wasting time.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

One month later after that, in that same first semester, James, his tone has changed, even the way he communicates. Something happened to James along the way from that first month in that fall semester to two, three months later. And he says, college is kind of hard, but he's gonna stick through it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2025

As a first-generation Black graduate student attending a large PWI research one university, I recognized the importance of leveraging my cultural assets to persist Jason K. asserted that first-generation Black students, in particular, demonstrate exceptional resilience, often overcoming obstacles in their personal and academic lives.

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