First-Generation

• First-generation college student at Northwestern refers to any student whose parents haven’t graduated from a four-year university or college.

National Coverage

• I Can't Understand Financial Aid Letters, and I have an Advanced Degree. So, How Can Poor Students Manage? (The Hechinger Report, August 2017)
• An Underground College for Undocumented Immigrants (The New Yorker, May 2017)
• The Aristrocracy That Let Me In (Stanford Politics, June 2017)
• College Makes Sense for the Elite, But it Might Not Work for the Working Class, LinkedIn (May 2017)
• Some Mass. Colleges Move to Cover Extra Costs of a Degree for Poorer Students (Edify, July 2017)
• The unique challenges of a first-generation college student (Quartz, June 2015)
• Widening Wealth Gap (Inside Higher Ed, May 2015)
• First Generation Students Unite (The New York Times, April 2015)
• Coming Out as Poor at an Elite University (State of Opportunity, January 2015)
• What We Can Learn from First Generation College Students (Time Magazine, April 2012)
• What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League School? (The Boston Globe, April 2015)

Scholarly Articles

• Closing the Social Class Achievement Gap (PDF) (Association for Psychological Science, 2014)
• Middle Class and Marginal? Socioeconomic Status, Stigma, and Self-Regulation at an Elite University (PDF)