{"id":23999,"date":"2018-11-19T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=23999"},"modified":"2019-03-21T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:49:08","slug":"celebrating-the-first-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/celebrating-the-first-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the First Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24000\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" data-attachment-id=\"24000\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/celebrating-the-first-generation\/ana-rodas-18\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Ana-Rodas-18-8756_Sm.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,943\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D750&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Ana Rodas, Wednesday, November 14, 2018, first generation student.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1541601599&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;42&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Ana Rodas-18&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ana Rodas-18\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ana Rodas, Wednesday, November 14, 2018, first generation student.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Ana-Rodas-18-8756_Sm-1024x754.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24000\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Ana-Rodas-18-8756_Sm-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Ana-Rodas-18-8756_Sm-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Ana-Rodas-18-8756_Sm-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Ana-Rodas-18-8756_Sm-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Ana-Rodas-18-8756_Sm-580x427.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Ana-Rodas-18-8756_Sm-610x449.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Ana-Rodas-18-8756_Sm-250x184.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Ana-Rodas-18-8756_Sm-543x400.jpg 543w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/11\/Ana-Rodas-18-8756_Sm.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Rodas, junior nursing major from Nashville and first-generation college student.<\/p><\/div>\n<h5><i>About 25 percent\u2014or approximately 2,200\u2014of UTC undergraduates are first-generation college students. They are part of a highly qualified undergraduate student body that came to UTC with an average ACT score of 23.4 and average high school GPA of 3.48. Once at UTC, however, first-generation students must blaze a new trail all on their own, without the benefit of parents or grandparents with knowledge of the college experience.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstgen.naspa.org\/events\/2018-first-generation-college-celebration\">National First-Generation College\u00a0Student Day\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0is set aside to acknowledge the effort and challenges overcome by first-generation college students and the impact they and their education will make on society. Below, meet one of UTC\u2019s own.<\/i><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Ana Rodas, 21, is a junior nursing major from Nashville and a first-generation college student. She\u2019s also a first-generation American and a first-generation high school graduate, the daughter of parents who immigrated from Honduras and Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>At McGavock High\u2014a public school with a diverse student body of more than 2,000\u2014almost half of Rodas\u2019 classmates who planned to go to college were to be the first in their families, Rodas said.<\/p>\n<p>As a high school junior, she decided she wanted to become a nurse and, in her last semester of high school, she chose UTC on the basis of a friend\u2019s recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went on a mission trip to Ecuador at the end of my junior year of high school, and I saw this woman educator commuting more than four hours a day to teach in a school that went from kindergarten all the way to high school,\u201d Rodas said. \u201cThat really struck my heart. I wondered what I could do, and I asked what else they needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealthcare, I was told. The lack of access and of providers means that a common cold can turn into a serious illness. I had been on an academic pathway at McGavock to becoming a lawyer, but after that, I knew nursing was where I had to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rodas\u2019 mother, a single parent, wakes at 4 a.m. each day to begin the job she works until 4 p.m. Several evenings a week, she works another four to six hours at a second job. Rodas\u2019 mother has worked at least two jobs for as long as she can remember, including to help support her older brother through his education at Lee University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer dream was to become a nurse, but she was never given the opportunity to get the education,\u201d Rodas said. \u201cShe gets to see her dream fulfilled through me and my brother, who is an athletic trainer. She says both of her children are going into the field she would have chosen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On track to graduate from UTC in December 2019, Rodas said she\u2019ll head back to Nashville, where her dream job would be to practice nursing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>She also wants to connect with young people in middle and high school. \u201cI want to inspire underprivileged students, to show them you can get a degree, you can afford to go to college, and you can have a better life after that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to inspire the next generations of my family to go to college, too\u2014to set a standard that a high school education only is not enough; to communicate to them that my people are not here only to work at hourly labor, but to have meaningful employment and make an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked what she most anticipates or looks forward to about earning her degree, Rodas again mentioned her mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom has worked so hard for my brother and me and at multiple jobs so that we can graduate without debt, and now we have a future where we can live a good life that\u2019s enough\u2014comfortable\u2014and something I can sustain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for me, one of the very best things about getting my college degree will be giving my mom the incredible pride I know she will have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ana Rodas is a junior nursing major from Nashville and a first-generation college student, first-generation American and first-generation high school graduate, the daughter of immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/celebrating-the-first-generation\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1300,"featured_media":24000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,4936,661],"tags":[116,53,54,83469,83313,83314,225,12663,12766,150],"class_list":{"0":"post-23999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-of-health-education-and-professional-studies","8":"category-school-of-nursing","9":"category-students","10":"tag-chattanooga","11":"tag-college-of-health","12":"tag-education-and-professional-studies","13":"tag-first-gen-students","14":"tag-first-generation","15":"tag-first-generation-college-students","16":"tag-nursing","17":"tag-student-success-2","18":"tag-students","19":"tag-utc","20":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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