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Are you the first in your family to attend university?

Â鶹AV welcomes youÌý

Every year the First-Generation welcome reception and orientation offers a great opportunity to meet and connect with other incoming first-generation students, upper-year first-generation students, alumni and staff. Keep an eye out and mark your calendar for:

You belong here

1st Up is a first generation student group that offers emotional and academic support, and organizes to help students meet other first generation students and faculty members, covering topics such as navigating the university experience, social justice issues, and self-care strategies.

No stress, we have a guide for you!ÌýÌý

The First-Generation Student Guide was created for First-Gen students, by First-Gen students. Find helpful information, resources and tips for navigating your first year.

Find ways to fund student life and studies

Explore undergraduate scholarships and bursaries, student jobs, budget hacks and other ways to stay on budget while studying at Â鶹AV.

*Please note that for Continuing Studies students, the School of Continuing Studies offers its own bursaries. However, CS students can meet with a counsellor for general assistance around other financial issues.

Hear it from first-generation students at Â鶹AV:

Stories on finding your communityÌý

“Although higher education is an exciting next step, it may feel daunting to be the first in your family to attend university.â€Ìý

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A testimony on passing the torchÌý

“Kathy Nakashima was a first-generation university student; now she’s ensuring others follow in her footsteps.â€Ìý

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There’s something for everyone at Â鶹AV

Find other types of support and connect with your community on campus.


Â鶹AV is on land that long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst
Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge
and thank the diverse Indigenous people whose footsteps have marked this territory on which
peoples of the world now gather.
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