Getting to and through college for first-generation students, students of color, and students from low-income backgrounds comes with struggles and sacrifices not faced by their White, wealthy peers. What these students do to attend, afford, and finish college needs to be part of any conversation about how to improve higher education in the U.S.
Thank you to the Edwin Gould Foundation for their generous support of the Getting To and Through series.
Getting To & Through College: Notes From the COVID-19 Pandemic
Getting to and through college is challenging enough in normal times. Enter the COVID-19 pandemic, which is making things…
Getting To & Through College: The Benefits of Taking Advanced Coursework
Colleges are the pipeline to good jobs and the middle class, yet for many students of color and students…
Getting To & Through College: “If It’s Not Paid For, I’m Not Going”
Meet Sancia Celestin, a senior at George Mason University. Raised by her mother, a Haitian immigrant who works 12-hour…
Getting To & Through College: Joscelyn Guzman
More Latinos are going to college than ever before, but as Joscelyn Guzman, a first-generation Mexican-American learned firsthand, getting…
Getting To & Through College: Tiffany Jones
In the first installment of our new series, an African American, first-generation college graduate recalls the struggles of going…
