Fall 2021 Overview
- Beautiful weather for our first event of the year!
- We love Kan Jam!
- Catered by GRUB!
- We had a great time meeting Duke First (Duke Alumni supporting FGLI students and each other)!
- First ever Friendsgiving was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who brought a dish to share.
- We enjoyed celebrating National First-Gen Day with Duke L1FE FGLI undergrads!
- F1RSTS-L1FE mixer ft. banh mi from Pho & Poke House!
- Yum!
Third Annual Duke-UNC First-Gen Symposium
February 29, 2020
Duke F1RSTS hosted the Third Annual Duke-UNC First-Gen Symposium, where first-gen grad students from the two universities learned how to embrace and leverage their first-gen identity. Thank you to Carolina F1RSTS and keynote speaker Dr. Sonja Ardoin for your participation in our successful event! If circumstances allow, we’re looking forward to the 4th Annual First-Gen Symposium in 2021, which will be hosted at UNC Chapel Hill.
Duke F1RSTS Kick off Lunch August 29, 2019

Duke F1RSTS Kickoff Lunch for First-Generation Graduate Students

Duke F1RSTS Kickoff Lunch for First-Generation Graduate Students
Duke Resource Fair 2019 – Welcome 112 new first-gen grads!
Navigating the Academic Job Market as First-Gen 4/3/2019
Second annual 1g symposium 3/30/2019
Duke LIFE / Duke F1RSTS Mentorship Program Mixer February 18, 2019
Workshop on Finances & Budgeting 25/1/2019
The participants learned about their own spending behavior by playing a card game and creating a spending plan. Our guest speaker was Danielle Cullen from Personal Finances@Duke. Feel free to reach out to her and schedule individual sessions to ask about credit cards, budgeting and tax information (for US citizens).
Info Session on Administrative Careers in Higher Education 17/1/2019
Student Mixer 11/13/2018
Academia & Careers in Higher Education 11/8/2018