First-Generation Faculty Initiative Content / First-Generation Faculty Initiative Content for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â en Expanding Opportunities for First-Generation Students /news/expanding-opportunities-first-generation-students <p>The Educational Opportunity Program&nbsp;on campus is&nbsp;expanding support for first-generation students through its 1st of Many educational advocacy initiative.</p> September 25, 2017 - 9:09pm Julia Ann Easley /news/expanding-opportunities-first-generation-students °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â Faculty Share Own Stories to Mentor First-Generation Students /news/uc-davis-faculty-share-own-stories-mentor-first-generation-students <p>Sons and daughters of parents who never went to or completed college will be in the classrooms and lecture halls when instruction starts this week at the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â, Davis. And some of them will be at the front of the class — professors and lecturers sporting T-shirts that identify them as first-generation college graduates.&nbsp;</p> <p>Nearly 400 °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â faculty are sharing their stories to offer encouragement and help to the 40 percent of undergraduates who would be in the first generation of their families to earn four-year university degrees.</p> September 25, 2017 - 2:47pm Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-faculty-share-own-stories-mentor-first-generation-students