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href="/student-success/firstgen/get-involved" title="" tabindex="0" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/7705">Get Involved</a> </li> </ul> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-feature-blocks field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--full-width-content paragraph--view-mode--default corner-graphic bg-color__white" id="paragraph-112" > <div class="l-container l-container--wide"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-copy field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="firstgen-nested-intro"> <h3 class="h5">California’s pioneering spirit is at work in thousands of UC students seeking to be the first in their family to earn a degree.</h3> <p class="body__large">They join faculty, staff, students and university leaders who themselves were the first to go to college. They are an important part of what makes UC great and how we're working to keep California a land of opportunity.</p> <p class="cta"><a href="/student-success/firstgen/get-involved">Get involved</a></p> </div> <div class="mobile"><img alt="" data-entity-type="" data-entity-uuid="" height="708" src="/sites/default/files/2022-08/illustration-undergrads-mobile-2022.svg" width="315" /></div> <div class="desktop desktop-firstgen-shift"><img alt="" data-entity-type="" data-entity-uuid="" height="586" src="/sites/default/files/2022-08/illustration-undergrads-desktop-2022.svg" width="930" /></div> <p class="sr-only"><strong>39%</strong> of <abbr>UC</abbr> undergraduates are first-generation.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--_0-50-feature-block paragraph--view-mode--default feature-layout--image-left js-scroll corner-graphic bg-color__uc-blue text-color__" id="paragraph-114" > <div class="flex"> <div class="flex--2col feature-image"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/50_50_feature_block_image/public/2022-11/jessa-fate-bayudan.jpg?h=a68d1c15&itok=WQocliHh" alt="Jessica Fate Bayudan" /> </div> <div class="flex--2col feature-content"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text-block-with-background paragraph--view-mode--default bg-color__"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-text-block field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><h4>“College is a brand new chapter that takes a lot of navigating. “Do” college at your own pace and to your own accord. It’s not a competition.”</h4> <p>— Jessa Fate Bayudan, UCLA</p> <p class="cta"><a href="/student-success/firstgen/students">Explore student stories</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--full-width-graphic paragraph--view-mode--default corner-graphic bg-color__white" id="paragraph-399" > <div class="l-container l-container--wide"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-paragraph-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="mobile"><img alt="" height="790" src="/sites/default/files/2022-08/illustration-graduating-mobile-2022.svg" width="328" /></div> <div class="desktop"><img alt="" height="648" src="/sites/default/files/2022-08/illustration-graduating-desktop-2022.svg" width="984" /></div> <p class="sr-only"><strong>82%</strong> of <abbr>UC</abbr>'s first-generation students graduate within six years... compared with only 11% nationally, among low income first-generation students. (Pell Institute, 2008)</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--_0-50-feature-block paragraph--view-mode--default feature-layout--image-right js-scroll corner-graphic bg-color__pink text-color__" id="paragraph-612" > <div class="flex"> <div class="flex--2col feature-content"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text-block-with-background paragraph--view-mode--default bg-color__"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-text-block field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><h4>“I was part of a minority engineering program. That is where I found the most kindred spirits and the most positive community I could have had.”</h4> <p>— Olivia Graeve, UC San Diego</p> <p class="cta__white"><a href="/student-success/firstgen/faculty">Explore faculty stories</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="flex--2col feature-image"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/50_50_feature_block_image/public/2021-10/olivia-graeve.jpg?h=a68d1c15&itok=rFEOjQHe" alt="Olivia Graeve" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--full-width-graphic paragraph--view-mode--default corner-graphic bg-color__white" id="paragraph-613" > <div class="l-container l-container--wide"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-paragraph-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="mobile mobile-median"><img alt="" height="370" src="/sites/default/files/2022-08/illustration-median-mobile-2022.svg" width="329" /></div> <div class="desktop desktop-median"><img alt="" height="571" src="/sites/default/files/2022-08/illustration-median-desktop-2022.svg" width="944" /></div> <p class="sr-only"><strong>7 years after graduation,</strong> <abbr>UC</abbr> first-gen students' median income has surpassed that of their families.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--_0-50-feature-block paragraph--view-mode--default feature-layout--image-left js-scroll corner-graphic bg-color__gold text-color__" id="paragraph-615" > <div class="flex"> <div class="flex--2col feature-image"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/50_50_feature_block_image/public/2021-10/jermaine-griggs.jpg?h=a68d1c15&itok=ZiLjnl4b" alt="Jermaine Griggs" /> </div> <div class="flex--2col feature-content"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text-block-with-background paragraph--view-mode--default bg-color__"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-text-block field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><h4>“I relied on my independence, tenacity and ability to take things lightly — because college was a walk in the park compared to where I grew up.”</h4> <p>— Jermaine Griggs, UC Irvine</p> <p class="cta__white"><a href="/student-success/firstgen/alumni">Explore alumni stories</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--full-width-graphic paragraph--view-mode--default corner-graphic bg-color__white" id="paragraph-616" > <div class="l-container l-container--wide"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-paragraph-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="mobile mobile-speak"><img alt="" height="923" src="/sites/default/files/illustration-stats-mobile.svg" width="375" /></div> <div class="desktop desktop-speak"><img alt="" height="630" src="/sites/default/files/illustration-stats-desktop.svg" width="1200" /></div> <p class="sr-only"><strong>49%</strong> of <abbr>UC's</abbr> first-generation students are African American, Latino/Chicano or American Indian.</p> <p class="sr-only"><strong>39%</strong> of <abbr>UC's</abbr> first-generation students speak English as a second language.</p> <p class="sr-only"><strong>60%</strong> of <abbr>UC's</abbr> first-generation students are from lower-income households.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--_0-50-feature-block paragraph--view-mode--default feature-layout--image-right js-scroll corner-graphic bg-color__blue text-color__" id="paragraph-618" > <div class="flex"> <div class="flex--2col feature-content"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text-block-with-background paragraph--view-mode--default bg-color__"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-text-block field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><h4>“That sense that there is a limitless universe of knowledge to be learned has remained with me my entire life.”</h4> <p>— Kim A. 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