Student Name(s): Jacques Pelman

Course: CINQ 388-389 – Inquiry to Impact Projects

Faculty Member: Luis Brunstein

Project Details: Link here

Project description:
The objective of this project is to develop a website where first-generation students at Lehigh University can share, through written narratives, photographs, and videos, their stories about their Lehigh experience with other first-generation students from low-income households, from elementary to high school, in the Lehigh Valley. We would like to use the website to disseminate the Lehigh University’s initiative to recruit qualified first-generation students from low-income households through our students’ voices. The challenge is to simultaneously reach principals, teachers, students, and parents. The effort will support the University’s Path to Prominence strategy by attracting and retaining academic talent from a plurality of socioeconomic origins. The community will benefit as these students, in time, become role models to other students in their communities.