First, but never alone
More than 240 first-generation and lower-income students joined 50 administrators from 25 institutions at Cornell. Co-chairs Natalia De La Caridad Hernandez and Elia Morelos built the weekend around a reciprocal premise: share what Cornell had created, learn what other campuses had built, and make being first feel less solitary.
The next day, Cornell was named to the First-Gen Forward cohort after cataloging an extensive but decentralized support ecosystem. The pairing gave the summit a distinctive focus: national peer learning alongside a host campus examining how its own resources could work more coherently.
- Participation
- More than 240 students and 50 administrators
- Reach
- 25 institutions
- Campus milestone
- Named to the First-Gen Forward cohort