Community Resources

Here is some information compiled by NASPA'a Center for First-Generation Student Success looking at the impacts of COVID-19 on first-generation students experienced across institutions of higher education. The center released a compilation of pertinent articles and resources to support first-generation students, which will be updated as more resources come out. These include information on the following: 

• Accessibility
• Advising
• Food and Housing Insecurity
• Internet Access
• Mental Health 
• Working from Home

Last November, the Council for Opportunity in Education's Board, in partnership with the Center for First-generation Student Success of NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, asked college access and success professionals to join with TRIO programs across the country for the First Annual First-Generation College Celebration on November 8, 2017 — the Anniversary of the Higher Education Act.

For more information, please visit: http://www.coenet.org/first-generation.shtml

I’m First! was created by nonprofit Center for Student Opportunity in 2013 to provide students who lack a family history of higher education with inspiration, information, and support on the road to and through college and is now an initiative of Strive for College—a national nonprofit that also runs a national online mentoring program for college-bound students.

For more information, please visit: https://imfirst.org/ 

An initiative led by NASPA with the generous financial support of The Suder Foundation. The Center for First-generation Student Success will serve as the primary entity to increase the research, scholarship, and effective practice supporting first-generation student success and to expand the number of institutions with evidence-based programs.

For more information, please visit: https://firstgen.naspa.org/

On February 24, 1986, a congressional resolution declared that Saturday, February 28, 1986, should be designated as "National TRIO Day" to commemorate the annual achievements of the Federal TRIO programs in communities across the country.

For more information, please visit: http://www.coenet.org/national_trio_day.shtml

• Build community for first-year first-generation undergraduate and graduate college students.
• Educate around issues, practices, and research on first-generation college experiences.
• Bring visibility to the first-generation college student community and their intersecting identities.

For more information, please visit: http://dornsife.usc.edu/first-generation-college-student-summit/