{"id":21056,"date":"2022-11-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=21056"},"modified":"2022-11-10T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T14:49:23","slug":"first-gen-success-story-transylvania-womens-basketball-coach-juli-fulks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2022\/11\/first-gen-success-story-transylvania-womens-basketball-coach-juli-fulks\/","title":{"rendered":"First-gen success story: Transylvania women\u2019s basketball coach Juli Fulks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/11\/Juli-Fulks-Portraits-4-730x486.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/11\/Juli-Fulks-Portraits-4-730x486.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/11\/Juli-Fulks-Portraits-4-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/11\/Juli-Fulks-Portraits-4-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/11\/Juli-Fulks-Portraits-4-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/11\/Juli-Fulks-Portraits-4-810x539.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/11\/Juli-Fulks-Portraits-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/11\/Juli-Fulks-Portraits-4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Juli Fulks\u2019 undergraduate experience positioned her perfectly to support first-generation players in her current role as the Pioneers head women\u2019s basketball coach. She is familiar with the utter lack of familiarity facing first-generation students; after all, she was one herself. Originally from Dunkirk, Ohio, Fulks grew up as the second child of a truck driver and a stay-at-home mom in a small, rural community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite not attending college themselves, her parents emphasized education and valued it so highly that Fulks never questioned if she would earn her degree.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMom and Dad were always willing to be supportive,\u201d Fulks said. She found school enjoyable and engaging, and remembers spending summer vacations going to the library and reading before moving to Columbus to attend Capital University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Playing college basketball and volleyball, Fulks relied on her upperclass teammates to help her learn the higher ed ropes, all while feeling a constant internal pressure to meet the myriad unwritten expectations of college life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll of my friends in high school were a year older than me,\u201d Fulks said. \u201cI got to watch what they did and see how they were being successful.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversations with friends and their families helped Fulks navigate an unfamiliar environment and led her to opportunities she might have otherwise missed, including internships with her local health department and a sleep lab, which she eventually managed post-graduation before transitioning to coaching.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This didn\u2019t prevent a few initial stumbles, namely when Fulks registered for a major-level biology class alongside calculus and chemistry in her first semester, inadvertently signing up for an extremely rigorous academic load.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI actually dropped Calc my freshman year because I had a B and I didn\u2019t have anyone to tell me that it was a terrible idea to drop that class,\u201d she reflected. \u201cParents who had gone to college would say \u2018Hey, that\u2019s okay; we\u2019re not dropping this because of a B,\u2019 but I was on my own and thought I had to have an A in everything.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Determined to be self-reliant and unsure of who to ask for assistance, Fulks remembers flipping through her university\u2019s course catalog to make sure that she was taking the right classes for her major.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know who to ask, so I just tried to figure out what to do on my own,\u201d she recalled.&nbsp; Experiences like this one taught her the value of asking others for help. \u201cI was embarrassed and I made it a lot harder because I just didn\u2019t ask.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Fulks regularly reminds her first-generation players to reach out and ask for help from the resources Transylvania has in place to support them, including herself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s lots of variety in terms of first-generation students,\u201d she said. \u201cThey might figure it out on their own, or they might get overwhelmed and collapse.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fulks\u2019 own student experiences make her an effective recruiter of first-generation players, as she can relate to the parents as well as the students. \u201cI know what those parents are going through when they don\u2019t know what to ask, and what the students go through when they get here and everything is overwhelming,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fulks ultimately graduated from Capital University in 2000 with a major in biology and a minor in psychology \u2014 the first in her family to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree. She has since gone on to earn her Master of Arts in education from Defiance College and her doctorate in leadership studies from the University of the Cumberlands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A college degree \u201copens up doors that you can\u2019t have otherwise, regardless of what career you go into,\u201d Fulks said. \u201cBy the end [of college], I knew that being a science major was hard, and I could do something that was hard and unique and different, and do well at it. That boosted my confidence that I could go on and do the things that I wanted to do. Each [degree] gives you confidence that \u2018I can do all of this.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Fulks and her three siblings all hold degrees. \u201cEducating first-generation students changes families,\u201d she remarked, noting that she was able to draw on her own experiences to help her younger brothers when they decided to pursue their own degrees. 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