{"id":8910,"date":"2022-09-13T14:39:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=8910"},"modified":"2022-10-31T16:24:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T20:24:40","slug":"first-generation-initiative-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/first-generation-initiative-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Eckerd College\u2019s First-Generation Initiative and Club help students find their way through the maze"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extraa-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”] [image_with_animation image_url=”8927″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text]First-generation college-graduate staffers Robbyn Hopewell, assistant vice president for communications, and Doug McMahon, director of religious life and chaplain (first and second from left), get to know first-generation first-year students at an Autumn Term<\/a> First-Gen Club meetup. Photo: Penh Alicandro ’22<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

Being the first in her family to attend college, Heaven Juarez was a little apprehensive about how she would navigate this place called Eckerd College. There were so many questions\u2014where to get financial aid forms, how to schedule classes, who to go to for help.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\u201cAnd I was worried I wasn\u2019t going to be able to make friends because a lot of people come from backgrounds that are different from mine,\u201d says Heaven, a first-year student from Lawrence Township, New Jersey. \u201cBecause I\u2019m first generation, the hardest part is all the little things I don\u2019t know, like the difference between a 100- and a 200-level class. And I had no idea how to address my professor, and that classrooms [here] don\u2019t look like the giant lecture halls you see in the movies.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut everyone has been super nice and very inclusive. I met a bunch of students in the First-Gen Club, and they told me about the resources available.\u201d Heaven made such a positive impression on the club that she was recently selected as a vice president.<\/p>\n

Eckerd College offers a wealth of academic support to all students but didn\u2019t offer anything special for students like Heaven until the First-Generation Student Initiative launched in September 2019<\/a>. After several successful events that year, Cedrica \u201cCJ\u201d Jackson, now a senior first-generation student from Tampa, founded the First-Gen Club. She now serves as president.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” el_class=”lg_text” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text]\u201cI\u2019m dedicated to the success of the club,\u201d the psychology<\/a> major says, \u201cbecause it creates community and resources for a large population of students who have gone unnoticed.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Chartered through the Eckerd College Organization of Students<\/a>, the First-Gen Club is open to everyone at Eckerd.<\/p>\n

Lisa Miller, Ph.D.<\/a>\u2014associate professor of sociology<\/a> at Eckerd, a first-generation college graduate and one of the guiding forces behind the initiative and the club\u2014recalls her first year at Berea College in Kentucky. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what a professor\u2019s office hours meant,\u201d she says. \u201cI remember the first time I had to register for classes. That was really intimidating, and I was clueless about what I wanted to take my first year. I hadn\u2019t had those conversations with my parents because they didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started working on this four years ago,\u201d she adds, \u201cwe wanted to help first-generation students identify other students like themselves and models for success. It\u2019s an invisible status. And we wanted to provide support and resources. Creating community for first-gen students helps cultivate a sense of belonging.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller notes that Heather Bush, assistant professor and access services and instructional librarian, along with Margret Skaftadottir, Ph.D., coordinator of academic coaching at the Bevan Center for Academic Excellence<\/a>, will co-chair the First-Generation Student Initiative during the 2022\u201323 academic year.<\/p>\n

Michelle Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, John Legend, Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth Warren, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Lewis and Albert Einstein were first-generation college graduates. Today, about 33% of students pursuing higher education in America are the first in their family to attend college. At Eckerd, the number is around 22%, which is the average for smaller liberal arts colleges.<\/p>\n

For many first-generation students, college presents unique and difficult challenges. Students whose parents did not attend college are more than twice as likely to leave college within the first year, according to the U.S. Department of Education. And a 2018 report from the National Center for Education Statistics<\/a> notes that first-generation college students face significant hurdles to academic success\u2014such as \u201cunderstanding the significance of the syllabus, what \u2018office hours\u2019 means, or how to cite sources in written assignments\u201d\u2014and are less likely than students whose parents attended college to complete their degrees.<\/p>\n

But those who receive guidance often are among the first to provide help to those who come after them. \u201cBoth my wife and I are first-generation college graduates,\u201d James Annarelli, Ph.D., interim president of Eckerd College<\/a>, told the audience at the College\u2019s annual Ceremony of Lights<\/a> event last August. \u201cMy mother loved learning and desperately wanted to attend college. But she was thankful just to be able to graduate from high school since her father did not value education for women. My dad had a ninth-grade education and had to quit school to help support his family.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” el_class=”lg_text” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text]\u201cI tell you this because as a first-generation college graduate, I was continually reminded by my parents of the importance of recognizing and appreciating the privilege that I had been given and the accompanying obligation that I had, to use my education to serve the greater common good,\u201d he added.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]As a part of building the community, faculty and staff members have been supplied \u201cSafe Zone\u201d\u2013style \u201cFirst-Gen\u201d stickers for their office doors to let students who may be first gen know that the person behind the door has been in their situation.<\/p>\n

Adds Chelsea Creaturo, a former research analyst in Eckerd\u2019s Office of Institutional Effectiveness and current interim registrar<\/a> who helped start the initiative and is a first-generation college graduate herself, \u201cFor first-gen students to hear you say, \u2018You got this,\u2019 that goes a long way.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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