Danae Bolton’s family is brimming with graduates this spring. Growing up as the oldest child in a Black, low-income, single-parent household, Bolton was the first in the family to go to college – but ...

First-generation students face a host of barriers when they go to college. Terms commonly used in higher ed, like “registrar,” “provost” or “credit hours,” can be mystifying. They’re confronted with a ...

Check out our Community Directory of staff and administrators at Northwestern who were all first generation college students. Learn more about their journeys and reach out to connect. Being ...

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 ...

From gas station attendants funding entire college degrees to paper delivery kids saving house down payments, the teenage ...