![Students gather at the Free Speech wall in October 2017 for a "Take a Knee" event hosted by the Social Justice Advocacy group on campus](/sites/default/files/article-thumbnail/students-take-a-knee-2017-300x242.jpg)
Programs like 1GenU, along with The Center for Multicultural Excellence and student affinity groups, are working to support first-generation college students at DU.
![Elton Chimwemwe Chavura (left) and Ivey Bostrom (MA '18) stand in front of a building with a thatched roof in Malawi](/sites/default/files/article-thumbnail/thumbnail_img_1516.jpg)
In the summer of 2017 two IIC students had the incredible opportunity to evaluate a shallow wells program as part of a faculty-led student team from DU and Virginia Tech in Malawi, Africa.