When you do something that no one's done before, you're setting a precedent. You're the blueprint — the start of a new legacy. And if you're setting a precedent as the first person to do or achieve ...

First-generation students make up about one-third of college applicants, according to 2024 data from the Common App, but only 24 percent of first-generation college students graduate with a bachelor’s ...

We’ve heard the story before: the first-generation college student who beats the odds, navigates campus life without a roadmap, and earns a degree for their family, their community and themselves.

Bowdoin closed out a week of honoring students and their accomplishments with an afternoon get-together in Ladd House on National First-Generation College Celebration Day. The day is observed on ...

I am a first-generation high school graduate. That means I come from a family where the road to higher education wasn’t paved by my parents. My journey wasn’t inherited—it was imagined. I had to ...

Gen Z, this will smart. The generation born between 1997 and 2010 is the very first generation who did worse in school than the generation before them, according to a top neuroscientist. And ...

Bose has a new flagship pair of noise-cancelling wireless headphones. The QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen) build on the five-star 1st Gen model in subtle but significant ways, much like the QC ...

Sinar Mas—controlled by tycoon Franky Widjaja and his family—has partnered with Philippine tycoon Federico Lopez’s First Gen Corp. to build six geothermal power plants with a combined capacity of 440 ...

UC Santa Cruz Educational Opportunity Programs (EOP) is proud to celebrate National First-Generation Week, taking place November 3–7, with a series of events honoring the resilience, leadership, and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Merelyn Chavez never owned a computer before she enrolled at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023. She grew up in Greeley, the daughter of Mexican ...