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UMKC program helps first-gen students transition into college [Video]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — UMKC’s First Gen Den is a place where sophomore Alexia Jaime and freshman Jasmine Galeas visit often.

“We’re all just hanging out, studying together,” Jaime said.

“It’s a place for all first-gen students to be able to have resources and access to just, a really easy community,” First GenRoo Director Megan Elsen said.

The space inside the Atterbury Student Success Center serves as a place for students who are a part of the First GenRoo Scholars program, students like Galeas.

“It provides me with so many opportunities, so much more than I can even imagine,” Galeas said.

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The program provides a number of resources for first-generation college students, helping them ease into their college chapter.

“It provides me a sense of community here,” Galeas said. “Everybody in the First Gen Den…they’re basically like my UMKC family.”

That new UMKC family includes her program mentor, Jaime, who was a first-generation scholar last year.

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