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Understanding Potential First-Generation College Students
In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, first-generation (FG) college students remain a significant and important demographic. Despite rising educational attainment over the past 50 years, more than half of college students are still first-generation. Recently, the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education (“Pell Institute”) took a deeper dive into exploring who…
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