Both Payton and Kiona intend to be the first in their families to attend college.
The JDRF also plays the celebrity card well, recruiting people with diabetes in their families.
Over 70% of these students are the first generation in their families to go on to higher education.
They were both, as the President said, the children of immigrants and the first in their families to go to college.
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Many of these students were the first in their families to attend college, and any distractions they had were not social.
There is nothing more satisfying than seeing kids from low-income communities be the first in their families to go to college.
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Refugees were reporting that the men in their families were being separated from them as they were forced from their homes.
The World Bank has found that women tend to invest more of their earnings in their families and communities than men do.
Most will be the first in their families to go to college.
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Many have had plenty of wealth in their families for multiple generations.
Many of them were the first in their families ever to graduate from college, and they overcame obstacles and defeated their own doubts to finish.
Both my mother and grandmother were considered burdens in their families.
"Everyone has some dysfunction in their families, " she told the magazine.
Today, four out five students at the school earn a diploma. 70 percent continue their education, many the first in their families to go to college.
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Today, women are nearly 50 percent of our workforce, the majority of students in our colleges and graduate schools, and a growing number of breadwinners in their families.
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Both were the first in their families to attend college.
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Awuah says the university brings together a diverse mix of students from different backgrounds, including scholarship-winning undergraduates from humble beginnings who are the first in their families to attend college.
About 64 percent of students who are the first in their families to go to college transfer or graduate within three years, compared to the national average of 40 percent.
The software entrepreneur and his wife each were the first in their families to finish high school, let alone go to college, so they don't have outsize academic dreams for Shark.
For children with STEM mentors in their families and neighborhoods, even a basic childhood activity like flying a kite becomes a lesson in aerodynamics, and a window into the wonders of the universe and future careers.
These schools, which have the backing of the civil authorities, traditional and religious leaders, as well as UNFPA support, bring together husbands who believe their wives should play a much more equitable role in their families and communities.
During the 1940s and 1950s, the federal government devoted substantial amounts of money to higher education, bolstering the quality of our research universities and opening access to millions of Americans who were the first in their families to receive this level of education.
Between 1970 and 2000 the mean age at which women had their first child in a range of OECD countries rose by more than a year every decade, and many more women now have their families in their 30s.
UNITA-controlled areas of the bush to ask for help in finding their families has more than doubled.
And two teams have been in their respective families for more than 75 years (the Bears and the Steelers).
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Many have experience with chronic illness in their own families. (One was himself a patient in the clinic.) Few had clinical experience.
Fiorina sees microlending as an opportunity for women to better their standing in their communities, their families and even to escape physical abuse.
"Part of our goal is to help the elderly stay in their homes for longer, help them stay in touch with their families and make their lives easier, " Addessa says.
Without a doubt, knowing that I wasn't alone, that there were other stepmothers struggling to find their rightful place in their new families just like me, was the best medicine to heal my pain.
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