{"id":101795,"date":"2026-11-02T04:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=101795"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:27:54","slug":"first-in-the-family-utoledo-faculty-staff-celebrate-first-gen-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_02_2026\/first-in-the-family-utoledo-faculty-staff-celebrate-first-gen-roots","title":{"rendered":"First in the Family: UToledo Faculty, Staff Celebrate First-Gen Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UToledo faculty and staff who were first-generation college students pose for a group photo last week at Mascot Plaza as part of the University\u2019s first-generation celebration. Roughly one in three UToledo students is first-generation, meaning neither parent has completed a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-101797\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/First-Gen-10272026-0637.jpg\" alt=\"UToledo faculty and staff who were first-generation college students pose for a group photo last week at Mascot Plaza as part of the University\u2019s first-generation celebration.\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/First-Gen-10272026-0637.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/First-Gen-10272026-0637-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TRIO Student Support Services hosted the photo, which leads into the First-Generation Day Celebration from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in Room 2520 of Thompson Student Union.<\/p>\n<p>For details, contact Angelica Johnson at 419.530.3848 or <a href=\"angelica.johnson2@utoledo.edu\">angelica.johnson2@utoledo.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_02_2026\/first-in-the-family-utoledo-faculty-staff-celebrate-first-gen-roots\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/First-Gen-10272026-0637-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"UToledo faculty and staff who were first-generation college students pose for a group photo last week at Mascot Plaza as part of the University\u2019s first-generation celebration.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>A First-Generation Day Celebration is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in Thompson Student Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":101797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,95,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101798,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101795\/revisions\/101798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}