Trailblazers: First-Generation College Students Tell Their Stories
Trailblazers: First-Generation College Students Tell Their Stories
By
Wilda Escarfuller, Mari Hayman
In their own words, six first-generation college graduates describe their achievements and the challenges they overcame to earn their degrees.
In honor of Americas Quarterly's launch of its Summer 2014 issue on higher education and competitiveness, we asked first-generation college graduates from around the hemisphere to describe how they defied the odds to get their college degrees.
The six former students featured below—the first in their families to graduate from college—have since gone on to work for leading global companies, build their own businesses, conduct important medical...
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