{"id":9241,"date":"2023-11-08T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=9241"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:22:02","slug":"supporting-first-gen-student-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2023\/11\/08\/supporting-first-gen-student-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting first-gen student excellence\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/20231103_SSC_First-Gen-Ribbon-Cutting_ANL-0082-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_SSC_First-Gen-Ribbon-Cutting_ANL-0082-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Eugene Moses, junior communications major, cutting the ribbon for the Office for First Generation Initiatives in the Student Success Center.\" class=\"wp-image-9242\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.499267935578331;width:300px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Eugene Moses, junior communications major, cuts the ribbon for the First-Generation Initiatives Office in the Student Success Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is National First-Generation Student Day, and at Mizzou we\u2019ve been celebrating with an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/firstgeneration.missouri.edu\/first-generation-celebration-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">entire week of activities<\/a>. We\u2019re proud that one in four Mizzou students identifies as first-gen. These students have overcome unique challenges on their journey to become Tigers, and we\u2019re here to support them with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/firstgeneration.missouri.edu\/students\/\" target=\"_blank\">campus resources<\/a> that encourage their ongoing success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We kicked things off last Friday with a ribbon cutting for the new First-Generation Initiatives Office and recognition of First-Gen Tigers as an official student organization. Undergraduate Studies also handed out first-gen buttons, stickers and t-shirts to students during the It\u2019s Sweet to Be First event on Monday. Events continue through this Thursday <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/firstgeneration.missouri.edu\/first-generation-celebration-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">with opportunities<\/a> for first-gen students to network, explore available resources and build community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re grateful to all our first-gen students for choosing Mizzou, and we can\u2019t wait to see what they accomplish next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re proud that one in four Mizzou students identifies as first-gen. These students have overcome unique challenges on their journey to become Tigers, and we\u2019re here to support them with campus resources that encourage their ongoing success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}