Column: What first-generation college students actually need
Column: What first-generation college students actually need
- September 18, 2023
- Anita Casavantes Bradford, Chicano/Latino studies and history, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18, 2023
Among education leaders concerned about first-generation students, there has been a conscious effort to focus less on their weaknesses and more on their strengths. … A hub of this strengths-focused approach has been UC Irvine, where in 2014 Anita Casavantes Bradford, a history and Chicano studies professor [and associate dean], began to develop a first-generation program that was adopted across UC campuses three years later.
For the full story, please visit https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-09-18/first-generation-college-students-alejandra-campoverdi.
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