KEYWORD

first generation

SAGE advice

UCI program helps low-income, high-potential undergraduates achieve their dreams

Physician-to-be benefits from philanthropy

Donor-endowed scholarship helps first-gen college student achieve her dream of becoming a doctor

Her Dream? To Call the U.S. Home

Viridiana Chabolla was only a few days into her first year at the UCI School of Law when that helpless feeling she had first experienced as a child welled up once again. Walking to class on the morning of Sept. 5, 2017, she watched a livestreamed video on her cellphone of U.S. Attorney General Jeff […]

The American Dream Personified

From helping homeless youths to leading California’s community college system, UCI alumni are living out the American dream in myriad ways. Tenacious, intelligent and driven, they have overcome adversity to achieve their visions and make a difference in their communities and in the world. Below, we explore just a small sampling of the fascinating success stories created by UCI graduates.

Advancing the American Dream

UCI is unsurpassed at helping low-income, first-generation and other nontraditional students thrive in college and beyond

From mentee to mentor

Having been where they are now, history professor David Igler has a lasting influence on first-generation students

UCI is ranked third among nation’s best colleges by Money

Magazine surveys affordability, academic excellence and early-career earnings

A pipeline to higher education

Now 25 years old, UCI’s Summer Scholars Transfer Institute continues to empower local community college students

UCI professor of education gets grant to help stem student phenomenon of ‘summer melt’

June Ahn, UCI associate professor of education, has been awarded a two-year, $397,000 grant from the Institute of Education Sciences under its researcher-practitioner partnerships program. His project will explore how to scale mentorship via a text messaging application that incorporates social and emotional supports to help stem “summer melt,” in which motivated and academically prepared […]

Almost half of students offered admission for fall quarter at UCI are first-generation

2018 admissions data reflect campus’s academic strength, diversity