first-generation college students

The University of North Texas at Dallas and the North Texas Food Bank teamed up to address food insecurity in the surrounding neighborhood with a mobile food pantry and on campus with a care pantry.

With T-shirts, pins and posters, campuses are drawing attention to first-generation students. The next step, experts say, is to actually give those students the knowledge and support they need.

A Fort Worth business owner is working tirelessly to make sure her employees don’t fall over the financial edge. She makes it her mission to employ,…

Administrators at Guyer High School in Denton County got tired of seeing immigrant kids miss out on college. The school started a new mentoring program…

Almost 90 percent of high school students in Texas graduate from high school, although there is large variation by race, ethnicity, family income,…

Going off to college seems like the American dream for first-generation, low-income students. But not if they drop out with loads of debt a few years…