This brief highlights both the institutional support available and the often-overlooked cultural aspects of boundary-crossing and imposter syndrome.

This brief offers fresh insight into how U.S. colleges and universities define, identify, and use data on first-generation students today.

This brief documents higher education’s efforts to support first-generation college students in the context of what has occurred at U.S. colleges during the first half of 2025

This brief explores the first-generation student identity and belonging and harnesses the student perspective.

This brief highlights how support for first-generation college students has grown, not only in awareness but also in organizational structures and programmatic offerings.

These fact sheets compare the 2019 and 2021 findings to experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic and employment and post-completion data.

These fact sheets provide national statistics about first-generation college graduates’ transition to graduate school and employment in the year after earning a bachelor’s degree.

These fact sheets provide national statistics about the background characteristics, postsecondary experiences, and outcomes of first-generation and continuing-generation college students in the United States.