FGLI Library

In The News

Yale Publications

• Patrick O’Brien. May 16, 2019. “Yale College seniors create inclusive and equitable learning experiences with the Poorvu Center.” YaleNews.
• Yale University Office of Public Affairs. April 22, 2019. “First-Year Scholars at Yale set to expand enrollment and academic programs.” YaleNews.
• Prihar, Asha. April 5, 2019. “UP CLOSE: Similar problems, across the world.” Yale Daily News.
• Clark, Caitlyn. March 27, 2019. “Behind the counter.” Yale Daily News. 
• McCright, Karissa.  March 7, 2019. “I contribute, too.”  Yale Daily News. 
• Diaz, Jake. March 5, 2019. “Where are Yale’s priorities?” Yale Daily News. 
• Quinlan, Jeremiah and Scott Wallice-Juedes. “Letter 2.28.” Yale Daily News.
• Lee, Hannah J. and Nia Whitmal. February 27, 2019. “For full financial aid.” Yale Daily News.
• Cho, Serena and Skakel McCooey. February 25, 2019. “Analysis: Breaking down the Student Income Contribution.”  Yale Daily News. 
• McCooey, Skakel. February 14, 2019. “New tax plan to hurt low-income students.” Yale Daily News.
• Tran, Vy. February 10, 2019. “Voices Of: Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike (José López).” The Politic.
• López S., José Y. February 4, 2019. “Being poor in elite spaces.” Yale Daily News. 
• Beck, Melinda. Nov/Dec 2018. “First.” Yale Alumni Magazine. 
• Lee, Aiden. October 26, 2018. “The price of ‘potential.’” Yale Daily News. 
• Pavilonis, Valerie. October 22, 2018. “FGLI students bond over break.” Yale Daily News. 
• Belli, Brita. September 25, 2018. “Yale alumna draws on past struggles to help students conquer money fears.” YaleNews. 
• Posnova, Anastasiia. September 6, 2018. “Yale introduces new initiative for first-generation low-income students.” Yale Daily News.
• Yale University Office of Public Affairs. August 23, 2018. “Incoming Class of 2022 sets record for socioeconomic diversity and yield.” YaleNews.
• Moody, Sharla. September 4, 2018. “On Appalachia and Yale.” Yale Daily News.
• Naik, Rohan. November 13, 2015. “Making the effort.” Yale Daily News. 
• Gersten, Jennifer. November 7, 2013. “We Don’t Talk About It.” Yale Daily News.

General News Sources

• Jemmott, Enoch. March 28, 2019. “The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor.” The New York Times. 
• Hylton, Antonia and Mimi Dwyer. March 23, 2019. “Yale students aren’t surprised their school was at the center of the college admission scandal.” Vice News. 
• Jack, Anthony A. March 18, 2019. “I was a first-generation college student at an elite college. The admissions scandal reopens old wounds.” The Washington Post. 
• Belkin, Douglas. September 5, 2018. “The Colleges That Offer the Best Financial Futures.” The Wall Street Journal.
• Sherman, Erik. August 31, 2018. “Low-Income Students Get Penalized For Having To Work Their Way Through College.” Forbes. 
• Willen, Liz.  July 17, 2018. “Alone in the Ivy League.” The Hechinger Report. 
• Wong, Kristin. June 12, 2018. “Dealing With Impostor Syndrome When You’re Treated as an Impostor.” New York Times. 
• Strauss, Valerie. March 13, 2018. “Low-income, first-generation students have—finally—established a beachhead at Ivy League schools. Now the real work starts.” The Washington Post. 
• Sharpe, Rochelle. November 3, 2017. “Are You First Gen? Depends on Who’s Asking” The New York Times. 
• Anderson, Melinda M. July 27, 2017. “Why the Myth of Meritocracy Hurts Kids of Color.” The Atlantic. 

Student Work

• Brown, Suzanne. April 22, 2019. “When it doesn’t pay to give.” Medium. 
• Rocha-Álvarez, Alexandra. October 25, 2018. “Death and Gravity Overcome.” DOWN Magazine. 
• Blatt, Gabriella. October 23, 2018. “Rising grief, rising tides.” Yale Daily News. 
• Randos, Nick. October 9, 2018. “Isolation, Insecurity, and Community: Being First-Generation Low-Income at Yale.” The Politic. 
• de Haerne, Danielle. September 14, 2018. “Hidden Behind the Statistic.” Published in The Yale Herald. 
• Rodriguez Cortez, Carlos. September 7, 2018. “A Predictable Hypocrisy.” Yale Daily News. 
• Garipian, Nune. August 29, 2018. “Here’s How I Transferred To Yale From A California Community College.” Forbes. 
• López S., José Y. 2018. “Not Made for ‘FGLIs’: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the First-Generation Low-Income Experience at Yale University (PDF).” Education Studies capstone. 
• Santos, Liliana. 2017. “ ‘Starting From the Bottom’: An Analysis of Student Success Stories in Education Nonprofit Marketing Materials (PDF).” Sociology thesis.

Email jorge.anaya@yale.edu if you would like your academic work to be included here.

Academic Articles and Texts

• Anderson, Jill. April 11, 2019. “Real Advice for First-Gens.” Usable Knowledge. 
• Morton, Jennifer M. March 29, 2019. “The False Promise of Elite Education.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 
• Pho, Helen. February 18, 2019. “Navigating First-Gen Career Pressures.” lnside Higher Ed. 
• Monaghan, Peter. February 17, 2019. “How Social Capital Affects College Choice.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 
• Tatter, Grace. November 15, 2018. “Food Insecurity on College Campuses.” Harvard Graduate School of Education Research Stories. 
• Reyes-Barriéntez, Alicia M. November 2, 2018. “Teaching First-Generation Latinx Students.” Inside Higher Ed. 
• Chatelain, Marcia. October 21, 2018. “We Must Help First-Generation Students Master Academe’s ‘Hidden Curriculum.’” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 
• Postsecondary National Policy Institute. September 26, 2018. “First-Generation Students Factsheet.”
• Lam, Marian B. September 23, 2018. “Diversity Fatigue is Real.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 
• Hansen, Claire. August 31, 2018. “Hard Copy or Electronic Textbooks? Professors Are More Concerned About Keeping Them Affordable.” The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Carnevale, Antohny P. and Nicole Smith. 2018. “Balancing Work and Learning: Implications for Low-Income Students.” Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. 
• Nguyen, Thai-Huy and Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen. 2018. “Is the ‘First-Generation Student’ Term Useful for Understanding Inequality? The Role of Intersectionality in Illuminating the Implications of an Accepted—Yet Unchallenged—Term.” Review of Research in Education 42:146-176.
• Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan. 2017. “Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility.”

Community Initiative Publications

• The Community Initiative. August 16 2019. “Advice For Incoming First Years.” (PDF) Yale University.
• The Community Initiative. October 4, 2019. “Cheat Sheet For Winter.” Yale University. link 
• The Community Initiative. November 22, 2019. “Meals Over Thanksgiving.” Yale University. link
• 1stGenYale Summer Bulldogs Funding Guide. link