First-Generation Faculty Initiative Content / First-Generation Faculty Initiative Content for аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ Davis 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 аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ Davis 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 University of California, 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 аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ Davis 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