Eryn Bostwick said that her high student-loan payments have prevented her from moving forward with IVF treatment.

Institutions that aspire to be truly inclusive must go beyond scholarships and access policies to embed financial literacy, ...

Kameron Young arrived on campus last summer like many other first-year college students, cautiously optimistic.

TRIO, which serves more than 12,000 high school and college students in Oregon, recently expanded to four more college ...

According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2,484,000 first-year undergraduate students enrolled at colleges and universities in the U.S. last year, bringing the total number of U ...

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 ...

Mara Tieken's new book Educated Out Educated Out shares the stories of nine rural, first-generation students navigating life at an elite liberal arts college. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College) ...

As the regular application deadlines approach this month, getting into college is top of mind for many high school seniors. But students assume that if a college admits them, it means the school has ...

It means that neither your parents/guardians or grandparents attended college and earned a four-year degree. Being a first generation college student means you are a trailblazer, a pioneer, and it is ...