First Generation Students: Creating Services & Initiatives To Help Them Succeed

Description  Challenge - Struggles faced by first-generation students Lack of engagement among first-generation college students Wide margins in Academic Success between first-generation and continuing-generation students. Key Takeaway This webinar explores the many aspects of first-generation students and the challenges they face navigating college. Participants will find it helpful for creating initiatives, services, and tools to help these students succeed at their colleges. Overview Over 50 percent of students attending college are first-generation students. Many of them are only aware of this status once they arrive at college. This results in a need for more knowledge about navigating college, which is no big deal as we can help them with this. But more importantly, it results in a need for more agency and capital to seek help academically, socially, and emotionally. Creating programs and services to counteract this lack of knowledge, agency, and capitol is critical