Our work and advocacy in the press
See the below for selected headlines from various media outlets, including the New York Time and the Boston Globe. We’re grateful to our ecosystem of supporters for helping to build momentum for the first-generation cause.
Penn to host annual conference for FGLI, Ivy League students for the first time since 2018
The Daily Pennsylvanian
Penn is set to host the 2023 1vyG Conference — the largest first-generation, low-income conference for college students in the nation — this upcoming February.
Ivy League degree: Now what?
The Hechinger Report
Brown’s experience epitomizes some of the social and moral tensions that a generation of low-income students graduating from elite colleges in the United States now face as they head out into the work world.
First-gen students at elite colleges go from lonely and overwhelmed to empowered and provoking change
The Hechinger Report
That conference had the giddy vibe of a family reunion. Some 250 students shared stories. They cried, hugged and flirted. They danced to a mariachi band and crashed on dorm floors. Mostly, they reveled in the heart-skipping discovery of others like themselves.
What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? (Copy)
The Boston Globe
High-achieving, low-income students, often the first in their families to attend college, struggle to feel they belong on elite campuses.
‘Increasing Access’: How the 1vyG Conference Strengthens the FGLI Community at Penn and Elsewhere
When Amy Gutmann was appointed president of the University of Pennsylvania in 2004, only one in 20 students at Penn identified as the first in their families to attend college.
But, her ambitious vision, the Penn Compact, outlined three core values: inclusion, innovation and impact to propel the University forward. And inclusion, advancing accessibility to higher education, particularly among first-generation, low-income, or FGLI, students, has been a priority since her inaugural address.
First-generation students convene at Yale
Yale Alumni Magazine
In February, 340 students from 18 colleges and universities across the country arrived at Yale for the conference. The weekend featured more than 50 speakers in workshops, panel discussions, and career networking sessions, and was supported by $160,000 in alumni donations and corporate sponsorships.
How Low-Income Students Are Fitting In at Elite Colleges
The Atlantic
People from the richest quarter of the population outnumber those from the poorest quarter by almost 25 to one at the nation’s most selective institutions.
First-Generation Students Flock to Harvard for 1vyG Conference
The Harvard Crimson
More than 350 college students, administrators, and alumni from across the country gathered this weekend on Harvard’s campus to celebrate their identities as first-generation college students, representing the culmination of many years of first-generation advocacy at Harvard and other colleges.
The conference, hosted by a group called 1vyG that spans eight college campuses, comes after last year’s first-generation conference held at Brown University.