The Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities is organizing the annual First-Generation Graduate Student Seminar Series. This series provides First-Gen grad students and First-Gen international grad students (international students who are first in their families to attend college or international students who are first in their families to come to the U.S. to attend college) with a space to connect with other students and share the challenges that they are facing in graduate school. For each seminar, we will also invite faculty members from various departments who were First-Gen students to share their own experiences, share resources, and answer any questions from the participating First-Gen graduate students. This seminar series is open to all first-gen students at WSU Pullman from any discipline.
We will meet four times during the Fall semester for 2-hour informal discussions with a panel of facilitators. These meetings will take place 4:00-6:00 pm on Friday, October 2, October 9, October 16, and October 23 in the Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall. We will also provide dinner for all the participants.
To participate, please complete this survey by Thursday, September 24, 2026. For any questions, please reach out at arts.humanities@wsu.edu.
We are also seeking additional faculty and staff involvement; if you are a faculty or staff member who was a first-generation graduate student and you would like to participate in this event, please contact us.
