First-Generation Students Library Guide

This book is a compilation of essays about what it's like being the first person in your family to go to college. TRIO Students at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis offer compelling narratives of personal experiences stemming from being a first-generation student in college.

At the heart of this book are fourteen first-person narratives by first-generation students.

A companion to First in the Family: Your High School Years, this next-step guidebook straight from their peers tells first-generation college students how to stay in college and graduate.

Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world--without a road map to guide her.