Rashné Jehangir, assistant professor in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, was recently interviewed by Bill Hageman, reporter for the Chicago Tribune, regarding her work with first-generation, low-income college students and her recent book Higher Education and First Generation Students: Cultivating Community, Voice, and Place for the New Majority. The article, "When it's tough to be first," was published on April 18 and considers the challenges that first-generation students face in college.