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Kernysha Rowe is the new director of Georgetown University’s Office of Student Conduct, where she hopes to create a space for discourse and dialogue.

Georgetown has worked steadily in recent years to attract more low-income students to the university and has a 92% graduation rate for Pell grant recipients, one of the highest in…

Michigan and Massachusetts have joined the list of states covering community college tuition, a movement that is gaining momentum even as federal efforts stall, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

Since the Supreme Court ended race-conscious admissions policies, a wave of U.S. colleges and universities have phased out race-based scholarships. What will it mean for students’ enrollment and future debt?…

A new report finds that Black men make up only a quarter of undergraduate students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, possibly limiting their opportunities for career and economic advancement.

The bequest commitment from Georganne Vartorella, M.D. (C’73, M’82) and Richard Statesir, M.D.—the largest commitment for scholarships in Georgetown’s history—will remove financial barriers to a Georgetown education and enable undergraduate…

A handful of highly selective institutions have released demographic data on their incoming Class of 2028 cohorts, the first class admitted since the 2023 Supreme Court decision ending race-conscious admissions.

Living expenses should be front and center in the effort to make higher education more affordable and accessible, stakeholders say.

New research finds that college students who have insufficient time to dedicate to academics alongside their childcare or work commitments tend to earn fewer college credits and have lower retention…

Anne Kim, a senior fellow at FutureEd—a think tank based at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy—recently highlighted the limitations of traditional remedial education and the slow uptake of…