What You Can Do

Social Networking with Students

  • Take a prospective student (and guest) to lunch
  • Host a table at the First Generation Awards Banquet
  • Serve as a resource for a current student
  • Speak to a group of students visiting campus

Media and Marketing

  • Share your story in radio ads (English or Spanish)
  • Be featured on the Alliance Partnership website
  • Assist with translation of written material into Spanish

Participate in Prospective Student Events

  • Share your fist generation experience in a presentation
  • Provide a presentation on your academic research
  • Give a guest lecture
  • Have your department host a campus visit in order to introduce future college students to your field

Undergraduate Research

  • Provide undergraduate research opportunities for first generation students (labs, classes, etc.)
  • Consider working with the Alliance Partnership High Schools and their students as you are writing grants or developing service learning projects

Serve on the First Generation Scholarship Awards Committee (a limited number of slots are available)


* If you have additional ideas, please contact:

Mary Ontiveros
Associate Vice President of Enrollment and Access
202B Johnson Hall
Mary.Ontiveros@ColoState.EDU
970-491-7197