All first-generation students, facultyand staff at CU Boulder are invited to join the Office of First-Generation Programs & Enrichmentwithin the Center for Inclusion and Social Change and TRiO Student Support Services within the Student Academic Success Center for aNational First-Generation College Celebration Day event from 4 to 6 p.m. on Nov.8.in the UMC, Room 235.
The event will include guest speakers , who will perform a hip-hop stage play on surviving college. The event also will includea faculty and staff mixer/panel where all first-generation students can connect with faculty and staff who were also the first in their families to go to college.
Nov.8 was selected as the date for the annual National First-Generation College Celebration to honor the anniversary of the signing of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
CU Boulder students, faculty and staff interested in attending are asked to.