{"id":3307,"date":"2019-06-24T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2019-05-29T13:17:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:17:56","slug":"first-generation-students-continue-to-face-barriers-post-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/06\/24\/first-generation-students-continue-to-face-barriers-post-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Generation Students Continue to Face Barriers Post-Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Getting to and through college is an amazing feat for first-generation students. But, the challenges this student population faces do not stop post-graduation.<\/p>\n

From parental connections to internships to the ability to buy a suit for interviews, the road from first-generation student to first-generation professional is a bumpy one.<\/p>\n

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\u201cParents play a surprising role in deploying their networks to help their offspring get jobs,\u201d Elizabeth Armstrong, a University of Michigan sociologist, told The Philadelphia Inquirer.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Simply getting a college degree doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ll catch up to people born with advantage. There is definitely inequality at play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Internships, which are often unpaid, are not typically an option for first-generation students. Neither is holding out for the perfect post-graduation job without a familial safety net.<\/p>\n

Out of short-term necessity, students are \u201cvulnerable to locking themselves into jobs that limit their long-term mobility,\u201d Ashley Rondini, sociologist at Franklin and Marshall College (PA) said.<\/p>\n

Cathy Tran, a first-generation student about to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, is facing these barriers now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019m so behind,\u201d she told the Inquirer<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cI didn\u2019t know about internships, I thought it was rude and transactional to ask professors for help getting jobs, and I didn\u2019t grow up with family members in professional jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full article<\/a> and explore NACAC\u2019s resource<\/a> for first-generation college students.<\/p>\n

Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s senior communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0adobson@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting to and through college is an amazing feat for first-generation students. But, the challenges this student population faces do not stop post-graduation. From parental connections to internships to the ability to buy a suit for interviews, the road from first-generation student to first-generation professional is a bumpy one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-exploration"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-Rl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}