Texas State course helps first-gen students succeed

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Getting accepted into college is tough. Yet, it can be an even taller task for first-generation students.Throughout the fall semester at Texas State University, over 2,000 first-generation college students enrolled in a university seminar that helps with their transition to the college experience and environment.Of these, 19 students are from Breakthrough Central Texas — an Austin-area nonprofit creating a path to and through college for folks who are the first in the