Sentences with phrase «first in her family»

I suspect my situation will sound familiar to others who are the first in their families to earn real money.

Over the last 5 years, over 50 students from the city of St. Louis have worked diligently to fundraise over $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationally.

For those students who are the first in their families to attend, quality advice is thin on the ground, but even if your parents are grads, much has changed in the worlds of work and education since they sat in a lecture hall.

Raised in a riverside shack in Solo, Indonesia, Widodo was the first in his family to go to college; he then founded the furniture export business that made him a millionaire.

Cole, one of three daughters of a single mother, was the first in her family to attend college.

For instance, an Ivy League alum with a high GPA is great, but even better is the person who was the first in the family to go to college and did well while working an extra job.

Mark has helped numerous organizations enable their employees to help those less fortunate through volunteering programs and community involvement, served on the Gap Foundation Board of Directors, and is currently on the Board of First Graduate, a non-profit which helps those who are the first in their family to attend and graduate college.

Provided scholarships for girls, many the first in their families to attend school, in 15 countries.

The Alliance is proud that it has scored a number of firsts in the family wealth industry.

The first in her family to go to college, she became a gifted schoolteacher.

As the first in my family to become a communicant member of my church, this was a big step for me.

Esther, said she thought she was the first in her family to become a Christian, but God showed her in a dream that her grandfather had been praying for her for many years.

He was not the first in his family to make the big time in Oklahoma college sports.

For any mom, it really helps to go to a class and connect to other moms or a support group, especially if you're the first in your family to breastfeed.

The first in her family to apply to college, she said she has been buried in scholarship applications for weeks.

He is the founder of First Generation Harvard Alumni, an alumnae / i organization of Harvard graduates who were the first in their families to graduate from college who offer mentoring to current undergraduates who are the first in their families to attend college.

An Arizona community college wants to tackle poverty by helping its students and faculty members celebrate being the first in their families to attend college.

I am the first in my family to breastfeed and until I started my nursing journey I had never known anyone who has breastfed.

Your youngster might be the first in the family to have a knack for gymnastics or a penchant for the piano, or she might have a unique ability to make people laugh.

She was the first in her family and group of friends to become a mom and she had wished that she had more of a support system.

In the end it built a coalition out of successful bankers living at the top of glass towers, middle - aged hippies and younger people, perhaps the first in their family to go to university.

Some of these people will be the first in their families to own a property.

«As the first in my family to go to college, I understand the message that initiatives like SAT School Day and College Awareness Day send to our students — we believe they have the potential to go to college, and we're going to give them the support and resources to get there,» Fariña said.

He is also the personification of CUNY's mission — a first generation American who went to Brooklyn College and became the first in his family to earn a degree.

With the help of Pell grants and financial aid, I became the first in my family to earn a four - year degree, graduating from CUNY.

Many were the first in their family to go to university, whilst over 30 candidates did not go to university at all: many of the new intake will be the very embodiment of social mobility as envisaged by Margaret Thatcher.

There are many reasons why applying to college seem overwhelming to some city high school students; reasons like not speaking English well, or being homelessness, or being the first in their families to consider college.

I was the first in my family to go to college.

CUNY supports hundreds of thousands of students, many of whom are new to our state or our country, or are the first in their family to attend college.

He also worked as a day laborer and is the first in his family to go to college.

He released his first advertisement this week, in which he introduces himself as the son of immigrants and as the first in his family to go to high school or college.

John T. Groves, Hugh Stott Taylor Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, says he was the first in his family to attend college.

Many are the first in their families to attend college.

We met a group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans returning to campus to study science and engineering (a feature that resulted in an official Army commendation for Alan Kotok, our managing editor), another group of faculty members who were the first in their families to graduate from college, and still another group who became science - policy fellows, combining politics and science.

A few years earlier, her paternal grandmother — a brilliant woman, the first in her family to go to college — had been crippled and made mute by a stroke.

Many of NMSU's students are the first in their families to pursue higher education, however, and as of 2014, only 46 % were graduating within six years.

Jones, who is African American, became the first in her family to finish college and obtain graduate degrees — a master's degree from the University of Washington in Seattle and her doctorate from Harvard University — both in biostatistics.

By competing and succeeding in a truly challenging course at a real university, students who have no other connection with higher education — because they often are the first in their families to complete high school, let alone consider college — receive an emotional boost and a realization that college is possible for them.

As young adults work to break the cycle of poverty or strive toward being the first in their family to go to college, they experience a disproportionate burden of stress — and were not resilient in terms of their future health due to the combined burden of lived adversity and striving to change it.

Thanks to H - LSAMP, Miller completed his B.S. in mathematics, making him the first in his family to finish college.

Two pronounced characteristics of our students are their ethnicity — 86 % of the UTEP population is of Mexican - American origin — and their lack of exposure to higher education — most are the first in their families to attend a university.

Many of our students are the first in their families to attend college.

Teams have captured the protein shell of the measles virus, for example, the first in the family of RNA viruses that includes rabies and Ebola.

Dr. Vidal Pizarro is an American born, first generation Colombian - American and the first in her family to complete not only college, but also graduate school.

Dr. Juarez is a fourth generation Mexican - American from Los Angeles, CA and the first in her family to earn a doctoral degree.

The first in her family to earn a doctoral degree, Dr. Higa completed her thesis at the University of Utah in Oncological Sciences where she studied the roles of nuclear pore proteins in nuclear export and nuclear envelope breakdown.

He was the first in his family to go to college.

Dr. Ramos is a first generation Mexican - American and the first in his family to earn an advanced degree.

RISE targets under - represented minority (Hispanic, African American and Pacific Islander) and low - income students or those who will be the first in their families to attend college.

Growing up, I was the first in my family to notice when my younger sister stopped eating.