Tips for Faculty:
- If the topic allows for it, have a conversation about first generation college students in class
- Personally offer office hours to those students you may suspect to be G1
- Reassure these students that no question is not worth asking
- Ask questions about what they are involved in on campus
- If you are a G1 student, give them one of your personal stories if you are willing
- Talk to them about what they want to do in the future
- Encourage them and give them praise if it is appropriate
- Provide them with the reassurance that first you are a person and second you are a professor
It is important for staff, faculty and administrators to be aware of first-generation college students. Resources on the most recent first-generation college student research, findings, and opportunities will allow us to be better prepared to support and assist this population
- The View of First Generation College Students in Higher Education
- The Chronicle of Higher Education article about the biggest struggles for G1 students
- Institution for Higher Education Policy First Generation College Student Planning - September 2012
- First Generation College Student Textbook review
- First generation college student literature for staff and faculty from the Carolina Firsts (first generation program) website
- A study of first generation college students and their families
- Analysis of First Generation College Students
- First Generation Faculty
