Each year, many colleges showcase a profile of incoming classes that cites students’ ethnicity, gender, regional representation, and expected majors. But there’s one data point rarely included: the percentage of first years who were given admission preference because their parents or grandparents attended the school.

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.

Associated Press

Ivy League students are pressing administrators to abandon the policy. Yale’s student government took a stance against the practice in November. A recent vote of Harvard students found that 60% oppose it.

Handshake

Recruiters from Goldman Sachs, Uber, and Genentech share their favorite events and best practices for reaching underrepresented students.

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.

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.

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.

LinkedIn

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.

The Daily Pennsylvanian

During the final day of the first 1vyG conference held at Penn, participants explored how they could implement what they had learned into their daily collegiate lives.

The fourth annual conference included more than 350 first-generation and low-income students from over 20 colleges across the nation. They spent the day meeting in discussion groups to share what they had learned and attended breakout sessions to discuss issues relevant to the first-generation low-income community.

The Brown Daily Herald

The first-generation and low-income conference 1vyG announced Thursday its expansion into a new organization, EdMobilizer, which will work toward policy-driven initiatives and continue to organize the annual conference.

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.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

First-generation college students face a well-known set of obstacles, from financial to social, before ever stepping foot on campus. A coalition of student groups from elite institutions, in coordination with 1vyG, a first-generation college student network, is setting its sights on removing just one of them.

The Washington Post

To reach the Ivy League after growing up poor seems like hitting the jackpot. Students get a world-class education from schools that promise to meet full financial needs without making them take out loans. But the reality of a full ride isn’t always what they had dreamed it would be.

Harvard Independent

Being the first in your family to go to college can be difficult, let alone when that college is Harvard. Over 350 first generation college students from the Ivy League and other top-ranked universities joined together on Harvard’s campus last weekend for the second annual 1vyG conference to discuss their first gen experiences. Organized by the Harvard First Generation Student Union and a board of current first generation students at Harvard, 1vyG was able to spark conversations about the various first gen experiences on college campus and how universities can be better at providing for such students.

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.

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.

The New York Times

On the nation’s most prestigious campuses, first-generation-in-college students like Ms. Barros are organizing, speaking up about who they are and what’s needed to make their path to a degree less fraught.