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When education creates distance from family

I am the first person in my family to go to college and when I come home for holidays I feel like a stranger speaking a different language.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Achievement can become a barrier to the very belonging that motivated it.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Belonging vs. fitting in — the distinction that matters?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.