A Running Start and Fast Friends for First-Generation Transfer Students

Chronicle of Higher Education

February 16, 2010

With a grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation and the Council of Independent Colleges, California Lutheran has been able to counsel first-generation transfer students even before classes start. The university took a summer program it had been running for freshmen who qualified for Student Support Services and adapted it. Last August, for the first time, first-generation transfer students participated in their own version of the program.

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