Purpose: 

• To foster a campus-wide culture that supports first-generation college students in all aspects of university life, using a data-informed approach to coordinating efforts that address barriers impacting first-generation college students’ success 

Audience/Stakeholders: 

• Faculty, staff, administrators, and students engaged in or wishing to enhance first-generation college support, including university leadership, program directors, faculty, and students 

Grounding Best Practices: 

• Asset-based framing
• Community-driven change
• Accessibility and opportunity

Approach: 

• Developing data-informed priorities, implementing policy recommendations, training faculty/staff, and providing student-centered programming 

Impact: 

• To build a campus-wide network of people and resources that gives every first-generation college student what they need to develop their full potential as students, scholars, and future professionals

Chairperson

Terra Molengraff – Program Director, First-Generation Initiatives and First-Generation Gateway

Council Membership

• Joseph Ballard II – College of Engineering (Staff)

• Julia Barron – Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (Staff)

• Norris Chase – LSA First-Generation Commitment (Staff)

• Timothy Cheek – School of Music, Theater & Dance (Faculty)

• antonio c. cuyler – School of Music, Theater & Dance (Faculty)

• Katie Fredline – Ross School of Business (Staff)

• Joelle Fundaro-Randall – University Career Center (Staff)

• Adan Hussain – Dialogue Michigan (Staff)

• Merry Krus – College of Engineering (Staff)

• Matthew Sullivan – Kessler Scholars Program (Staff)

• Pa Houa Xiong – Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (Staff)