Publisher s Note: This post appears here courtesy of ECU News Services. The author of this post is Crystal Baity.
Jocelyne Alfaro-Ruiz is a first-generation student and president of the student-led I’m the First organization at ECU. | Photo: Rhett Butler
Left to right, Cheyenne Kober, Kayla Brown, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Dr. Virginia Hardy, Jocelyne Alfaro-Ruiz and Mohammad Sarsour attended the National First-Generation Celebration in 2019. | Photo: Contributed Being the first in a family to attend college can be exciting and challenging all at once.
Kayla Brown, a junior and first-generation student at East Carolina University, said there were many unknowns beginning with the college application process, figuring out how to apply for financial aid, and completing other paperwork that is needed to simply be a student.