First-generation college students (also known as “first-gen students”) are students whose parents did not complete a 4-year college degree. In honor of First-Generation Student...

I am the son of two Mexican immigrants, the oldest of three siblings and a first generation American and college student. When choosing a college to go to, I had no one in my immediate family to turn to...

Biology major Valentina Vavlas ’23 hopes to pursue a career in medicine some day, but first she has to navigate college as the first person in her family to do so. “I have to do things differently...

A reflection on being a first gen student Before I came to St. Joe’s, my parents would occasionally mention the idea of college to me when I was in high school, but I always naively assumed it was too...