Through our new LSA First Fellows Program, we are expanding support for first-generation students, recognizing both the extraordinary talent they bring and the importance of making the pathways through college more transparent, welcoming, and easy to navigate. The program supports students during their sophomore year—a pivotal time when students begin exploring majors and careers and make decisions about their future—with mentorship, community-building, and support for summer opportunities.
And this year, we celebrate 10 years of the Opportunity Hub, which has transformed how students connect their liberal arts and sciences education to their futures. Through internships, coaching, alumni engagement, and career exploration, the Hub helps students see how their education can take shape in the world—and helps them pursue those possibilities with confidence.
As alumni, you know the power of this foundation because you live it every day. You have carried your education into laboratories and classrooms, boardrooms and non-profits, studios and public service, communities across Michigan and around the globe. You remind us that the value of the liberal arts and sciences is not confined to a first job or a single path; rather, it grows and develops over a lifetime.
