• College students whose parents do not possess a college degree (Lightweis, 2014)
• College students whose parents do not have a 4-year degree (Stephen et al, 2012)
• Neither parent nor guardian earned a baccalaureate degree (Clauss-Ehlers and Wibrowski, 2007)
At the University of Wisconsin-River Falls (UWRF), a first generation college students is a student from a family in which neither parents nor guardians have receive a bachelor's degree (UWRF, 2014). Defining this groups will allows universities