A March Department of Education report highlighted the University of La Verne as an exemplary school for low-income students. ULV joins other private institutions such as Converse College in South Carolina, Agnes Scott College in Georgia and the Sage Colleges in New York as private institutions that have more than 40 percent Pell Grant recipients, with half of those recipients graduating in less than six years.
The University of La Verne recently hired Nancy Reyes, an alumna who was a first generation college student, as the assistant director of first generation and cultural programs in the office of multicultural services.
Members of the First Generation Club at the University of La Verne sit among each other like family, prepared to share laughs and ideas and is the reason they have been able to support their members for three years.
Newly formed this year, the First Generation Club gives first generation college students the chance to sit down and discuss their college experiences.