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Still Rising: First Generation College Students a Decade Later

APM Reports
Still Rising: First Generation College Students a Decade Later

Mario Martinez and Katy Sorto were the first in their families to go to college. They started at community college in 2008 hoping to earn degrees, but the odds were against them. Both are from low-income families, they ended up in remedial classes, and they knew almost no one who had been to college.Still Rising: First Generation College Students a Decade Later tells their remarkable stories 10 years later and provides a rare window on the personal experience of trying to move up through education.

Jim is a journalism/mass communications graduate from the University of Oklahoma. While still a student, he became the host of what is now The Weekend Blues. He currently serves as KGOU’s Program Director where he supervises all aspects of KGOU’s on-air programming output.
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