The challenges of being a first-generation college student have increased tenfold this year as COVID-19 runs rampant on university campuses. On top of navigating an already new experience, first generation students must deal with the universally unfamiliar situation of going...

For first generation  students (those whose parents did not graduate college), support can seem sparse. In response, the First Gen Roo program launched in the fall of 2019 for incoming freshmen within the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) who identified themselves as...