{"id":2205,"date":"2012-04-04T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T21:41:01","slug":"film-explores-college-access-for-first-generation-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/film-explores-college-access-for-first-generation-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Film explores college access for first-generation students"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"10%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m9DSHLc08Oc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Northern Arizona University is hosting a screening of the documentary film\u00a0<em>First Generation<\/em>\u00a0at 6 p.m. Monday, April 9, at Cline Library Assembly Hall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Narrated by Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood,\u00a0<em>First Generation<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of four high school students\u2014an inner city athlete, a small town waitress, a Samoan warrior dancer, and the daughter of migrant field workers\u2014who set out to break the cycle of poverty and bring hope to their families and communities by pursuing a college education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shot over the course of three years and featuring some of our nation&#8217;s top educational experts, this 95-minute documentary explores the problem of college access faced by first generation and low-income students and how their success has major implications for the future of our nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A panel discussion with the filmmakers and NAU first-generation college students follows the film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For information, contact\u00a0<strong>Wendy Wallace<\/strong>, director of Student Support Services, at (928) 523-6922 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:wendy.wallace@nau.edu\">Wendy.Wallace@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/film-explores-college-access-for-first-generation-students\/\">Northern Arizona University is hosting a screening of the documentary film\u00a0First Generation\u00a0at 6 p.m. Monday, April 9, at Cline Library Assembly Hall. Narrated by Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood,\u00a0First Generation\u00a0tells the story of four high school students\u2014an inner city athlete, a small town waitress, a Samoan warrior dancer, and the daughter of migrant field workers\u2014who&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}