This page provides a comprehensive list of support topics, resources, and information specifically tailored for the First Generation+ community. Whether you’re seeking advice, looking for local resources, or in need of immediate assistance, you’ll find valuable information here to help you navigate various situations and challenges.
On Campus Resources
If you need someone to listen, help, or lend a hand, the Dean of Students Office is your first stop. Go here for emergency grants, laptop loans, the food pantry, reporting sexual assault and academic misconduct, medical withdrawal, mental health services, and more!
Student Success Center is the place to go for academic help like Peer Mentoring, Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction. They also house other support programming such as Fostering Success, MKE Scholars, Fund for Wisconsin Scholars, First-Year Forward, and Pounce Back Support.
The academic advising website can help you find your advisor based on your major, which falls under a specific school within UWM. Your advisor helps you plan and enroll in your classes.
The mission of Fostering Success at UWM is to provide guidance and support to foster students beginning with the admission process and continuing through to graduation. Although most resources address needs of foster youth, we also have resources for those who have been homeless or orphaned but are not in the foster care system.