Partners in supporting & encouraging first-gen students

College Partners

We partner with colleges and universities from across the country that place a high value on admitting and supporting first-generation college students. College Partners contribute to the I'm First! Stories campaign, nominate students to write for the I'm First! blog, are featured in the nationally distributed I'm First! Guide to College, and participate in the UStrive online mentoring platform.

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North Carolina

Davidson College

University of North Carolina at Asheville

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Ohio

Case Western Reserve University

University of Cincinnati

Wittenburg University

The Ohio State University

Oregon

Linfield University

Reed College

University of Oregon

Pennsylvania

Allegheny College

Alvernia University

Arcadia University

Bryn Mawr College

Carnegie Mellon University

Chatham University

Dickinson College

Elizabethtown College

Gettysburg College

Lycoming College

Shippensburg University

Susquehanna University

Temple University

Thiel College

University of Pennsylvania

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Brown University

South Carolina

Coastal Carolina University

Horry-Georgetown Technical College

Tennessee

Lincoln Memorial University

Vanderbilt University

Texas

Concordia University Texas

East Texas A&M University

Huston-Tillotson University

Southern Methodist University

St. Edwards University

Texas State University

Texas Tech University

Texas Woman’s University

University of Houston

The University of Texas at Austin

Vermont

Middlebury College

Virginia

Christopher Newport University

College of William & Mary

University of Richmond

University of Virginia

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Washington and Lee University

Washington

Seattle University

The Evergreen State College 

West Virginia

Davis & Elkins College

Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin-Madison