Cheaper tuition alone won’t get first-generation students to college

This commentary is by David Stahler Jr., a writing and literature teacher at Lyndon Institute.Vermont is making college more affordable, and that is good news. But a lower tuition bill doesn’t teach students how to apply, manage a college workload or see college as a place where they belong.For many first-generation and low-income students, the barrier is not the price. It is the distance between the life they know and the one no one has shown them how to reach. Federally funded Upward Bo