BU Today: What It’s Like to Be a First-Generation College Student
In honor of First-generation College Celebration Week, BU Today sat with a few of our Newbury Center student staff to reflect on what it means to be a first-gen college student. Learn more about their experiences and advice here!
Boston University First-Gen College Celebration 2024
Join the Newbury Center and the entire BU community as we celebrate the achievements and experiences of our first-generation undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. While the official date for the National First-Generation College Celebration is November 8th, we’re celebrating for a whole week. The Newbury Center and the entire BU community events: Monday, November 4th: […]
Is Higher Education Ignoring Inequality and Failing Disadvantaged Students?
The new book from our Newbury Center Faculty Director, Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, says colleges admit students from diverse backgrounds but forget cultural support. As an Amherst College freshman in the early 2000s, Anthony Abraham Jack had to deal with a problem that never blips on affluent students’ radars: the closing of the dining hall during spring […]
Class Dismissed: Book Launch & Discussion with Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack
Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality & Students Pay the Price Book Launch and Discussion Saturday, September 28, 2024 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM George Sherman Union (GSU), 2nd Floor 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 Register Here! Join Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack for an engaging discussion on his new book, Class Dismissed: When […]
Introducing BU’s Newest Terriers: Jonathan Galdamez
Recent BU transfer and first-generation college student Jonathan Galdamez sat with BU Today to take readers through his journey to BU. From working at Dunkin Donuts with his mother to creating his own web development company, Galdamez has pioneered his way to becoming one of the newest members of the Questrom Class of 2026. […]
Fellow First-Gen Penny Bishop, Adolescent Development Scholar, Appointed New Dean of Wheelock
On August 1st, leading adolescent development scholar and fellow first-generation graduate Penny Bishop assumed the position of Dean of BU’s Wheelock College. In an interview for BU Today, Bishop shares her experience as a first-generation student and her journey to where she is today. Read the feature here!
Glam4Good Collaboration with Newbury Center in Bostonia
The Newbury Center partnered with BU Alum, Mary Alice Stephenson (CGS’87, COM’90), and her nonprofit GLAM4GOOD, to give away clothing and toiletries to 575 first-generation college students. Mary Alice shares in the latest Bostonia about her career and transition to leading a nonprofit organization. Read the feature here!
Newbury Center Welcome and Orientation – Fall 2024
What is a first-generation undergrad student? A student in the first generation of their family to go to college (i.e., a student whose parents/guardians/caregivers did not earn bachelor’s degrees, although elder siblings and cousins may be attending college already or have earned four-year degrees). What is a first-generation graduate/professional student? A student whose parents/guardians/caregivers did […]
ELEVATE Launch Party
Come to our ELEVATE Magazine Launch Party to celebrate this year’s publication by our very own Terrier F1RSTS! Join us for the surprise cover reveal and hear from some of the contributors to our 3rd Volume who will share words about their contribution. Dinner will be served, so please be sure to register in advance. […]
First Voice Generation Documentary
First Voice Generation is a documentary film highlighting the racial, educational, and financial barriers of higher education for first generation college students. Even though 44 percent of Latino students are the first in their family to attend college, Latinos receive the lowest average amount of aid when compared to all students. Although, pursuing higher education […]