June 14, 2002
The Challenge of First-Generation College Students
A friend of mine, a dean of long standing at a prestigious Midwestern university, talks to me sometimes about her most interesting or most troubled students. She is careful to protect their anonymity, changing names and details -- as I will do here -- but the force of these stories is preserved. After listening to them, I am reminded again of both the psychological resilience and fragility of young adults: their apparent maturity, on the one hand, and, on the other, the fact that people in
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