TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - First-generation students at Washburn University were inducted into Alpha Alpha Alpha on Sunday. Tri-Alpha is a national honor society that recognized first generation academic ...

We’ve heard the story before: the first-generation college student who beats the odds, navigates campus life without a roadmap, and earns a degree for their family, their community and themselves.

I am a first-generation high school graduate. That means I come from a family where the road to higher education wasn’t paved by my parents. My journey wasn’t inherited—it was imagined. I had to ...