{"id":3556,"date":"2024-11-08T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:58:56","slug":"first-gen-science-students-represent-student-organizations-during-fgcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2024\/11\/08\/first-gen-science-students-represent-student-organizations-during-fgcc\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Gen Science students represent student organizations during FGCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University joined institutions across the nation to honor first-generation college students, faculty, staff and alumni in honor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/firstgen.naspa.org\/engagement\/first-generation-college-celebration\">First-Generation College Celebration<\/a> (FGCC). As part of the national celebration, Marshall hosted events, highlighted resources, shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/moments\/2024\/11\/07\/a-path-of-purpose-and-perseverance\/\">success stories<\/a>, and launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/g25P4Yj6yB8?si=tmUFpdQD1qB42i-w\">new video<\/a> highlighting those who were the first in their families to pursue higher education.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrations included a student organization fair in the Memorial Student Center lobby. Three of our own first-generation students in the College of Science represented their organizations.<\/p>\n<p>FGCC is an annual opportunity to\u00a0raise awareness of the first-generation college student identity. Since the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coenet.org\/\">Council for Opportunity in Education<\/a>\u00a0(COE) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstgen.naspa.org\/engagement\/first-generation-college-celebration\/first-generation-college-celebration\">FirstGen Forward<\/a> (FGF) hosted the inaugural celebration in 2017, hundreds of higher education institutions, K-12 schools and various organizations have joined together to recognize the achievements of the first-gen community\u00a0on and around Nov. 8 each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University joined institutions across the nation to honor first-generation college students, faculty, staff and alumni in honor of the First-Generation College Celebration (FGCC). As part of the national celebration, Marshall hosted events, highlighted resources, shared success stories, and launched a new video highlighting those who were the first in their families to pursue higher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":3557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/firstgen-student-organizations-202411.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5177,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/5177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}