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Millersville University financial aid director recounts first-generation struggles, vows ongoing support for Spanish-speaking students
Summary
An unnamed Millersville University director of financial aid described her path from a first-generation student to university financial-aid director and said she meets monthly with students — including Spanish speakers — to help with financial aid and basic needs.
An unnamed Millersville University director of financial aid told a recorded meeting that she began as a first-generation college student who relied on long hours of tutoring and campus mentors before returning to campus staff and eventually becoming director.
"Being a first generation college student was a difficult journey," the director said, adding that she tutored two to three hours a day as an undergraduate and worried about her family back home in Puerto Rico. "My days…
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