The first official event of our FirstGen Program launched on January 21, 2022 and was sponsored by UC Press and the UC Collaborative of Humanities Centers and Institutes.This webinar was designed to help first-gen scholars learn about the book publishing process. The first section featured a pan
Book publishing can be an unclear, mysterious process to many scholars, including those who are first in their family to attain a college degree.In our First-Generation Scholars Book Publishing Survey, we found several ways that the first-gen author experience differed, especially with particula
This past year, we began the initial research and discovery phase of developing our FirstGen Scholars Program, an initiative to support and improve the publishing experience for authors who are the first in their family to go to college. We wanted to hear directly from scholars about their book publ
