""The decline in college aspirations among first-generation students is deeply concerning," Kimberly Jones, president of the Council for Opportunity in Education, which oversees the Pell Institute, said in a news release. "These students have long faced systemic barriers to higher education, and this data underscores the urgent need for renewed investment in outreach, support, and affordability-including through programs like TRIO and the Pell Grant.""
""Without the continuation of these programs, it will be much harder to track the progress of high school, first-generation, and college students and to learn how to improve education outcomes,""
Between 2002 and 2022, the percentage of students expecting to earn a bachelor's degree or higher fell from 72 percent to 44 percent. Degree aspirations among first-generation students dropped from 60 percent to 33 percent, while students with at least one college-educated parent saw aspirations fall from 83 percent to 53 percent. The decline among first-generation students raises concern and underscores the need for investment in outreach, support, and affordability measures such as TRIO and the Pell Grant. Proposed federal cuts to TRIO and recent layoffs at the National Center for Education Statistics threaten both support services and the data collection needed to track progress.
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