UC Davis News

• UC Davis Faculty Share Own Stories to Mentor First-Generation Students - University of California, Davis (2017)

UC News and Websites

• UC Davis first-gen lecturer Jeanette B. Ruiz featured on the University of California First-Gen website
• Half of new UC students are first-generation college students - University of California (2015).
• UCI First Generation - University of California, Irvine
• First Generation Faculty Campaign - University of California, Los Angeles

National News

• Colleges are no match for American poverty – The Atlantic (2018).
• Grit: What is known, unknown, and off the mark? - Psychology Today. (2018).
• The persistence project - Inside Higher Ed. (2018).
• Are you first gen? Depends on who's asking - New York Times. (2017).
• California today: Courting first-generation students at U.C. - New York Times. (2017).
• How a Dean got over impostor syndrome — and thinks you can, too - The Chronicle of Higher Education. (2017).
• How I learned about the perils of grit - Psychology Today. (2017).
• ‘I Won’t Give Up’: How first-generation students see college - New York Times. (2017).
• Q&A: First-generation students – New York Times (2017).
• How to help first-generation students succeed - The Atlantic. (2016).
• I fit in neither place – Chronicle of Higher Education (2016).
• The problem with teaching ‘grit’ to poor kids? They already have it. Here’s what they really need - Washington Post. (2016).
• To become a bridge - New York Times. (2015).
• First-generation students unite - New York Times. (2015).
• Guilt is one of the biggest struggles first-generation college students face - Washington Post. (2015).
• New supports for first-gen students: Helpful or just 'a drop in the bucket?' - The Hechinger Report. (2015).
• The problem with grit - Education Week. (2015).
• What we can learn from first-generation college students - Time Magazine. (2012).
• When is a student 'first generation?' Words fail us - Chronicle of Higher Education. (2014).