Thiel College biology major featured blogger for website focused on first-generation students

Posted March 04, 2022 Print

GREENVILLE, Pa.-- Thiel College biology major Malajah Johnson ’23 is writing about her experience as the first person in her family to attend college for a website dedicated to supporting first-gen college students.

Johnson’s blog posts appear on I’m First!, which Thiel College has partnered with to support and promote first-generation college students. Johnson, of Pittsburgh, is a 2019 graduate of Imani Christian Academy.

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In late 2021, Thiel College joined other colleges, universities, corporations, non-profits, and K-12 schools in celebrating the success of first-generation college students, faculty, staff, and alumni. In 2017, the Council for Opportunity in Education and the Center for First-generation Student Success launched the inaugural First-Generation College Celebration! Given the continued success of this event, COE and the Center now partner to make this celebration an annual event.

I’m First was created by nonprofit Center for Student Opportunity in 2013 to provide students who lack a family history of higher education with inspiration, information, and support on the road to and through college and is now an initiative of Strive for College—a national nonprofit that also runs a national online mentoring program for college-bound students.