The First Gen Movement

Published: April 22, 2015, 9:21 a.m.

Over the past decade many elite colleges have taken great strides to admit low-income students, but there are unanticipated financial and cultural barriers to fitting in on campus that can\u2019t easily be solved by merely giving students a foot in the door. Questions of class differences have spurred a nationwide movement of \u201cfirst generation\u201d student clubs on college campuses.