To share support for first-generation students at UT Dallas, the Office of Undergraduate Education recently hosted Celebration Week, a series of programs held Nov. 7-11 designed to bring resources directly to first-generation students. UT Dallas started hosting Celebration Week in 2019 as an expansion of National First-Generation Celebration Day, which takes place every Nov. 8. “I also got the chance to engage with my first-generation peers.”Students like Elele and Martinez are why the Office of Undergraduate Education puts a strong focus on supporting first-generation college students, said program specialist D’ric Jackson BS’15, MS’17, a first-generation college student himself. First-generation college students enrich the UT Dallas community immeasurably, Jackson said. The program, involving more than 700 first-generation students on campus, engages some students in a custom first-generation student success course and provides others an assigned faculty or staff contact for individualized support.