Amy Jo Hall wrote this week’s guest post. Against some pretty incredible odds, she became the first in her family to attend college. She is one of many first-generation students here at UALR. Continue reading “Hope for a Brighter Future”
UALR will celebrate the more than 3,000 students on campus who are the first in their families to attend college at National Non-Traditional Student Week from Nov. 5 to 9. Continue reading “UALR Celebrates First Generation Students”
In 1996 as she was graduating from Wilbur D. Mills High School, Cloyce Kathleen “Katie” Brents just assumed she didn’t have the brains nor the bucks to go to college. No one in her family had ever pursued higher education, and she figured she wouldn’t either.