Diversity & Equity

On-campus barbershop events have become a source of community, belonging, and great haircuts for Georgetown University’s Black male students.

A new gift to the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund will increase its efforts to protect and support scholars from Ukraine, Gaza, and other regions facing large-scale crises…

A Massachusetts-based nonprofit called The Calculus Project is challenging assumptions about who can and should succeed in advanced high school math.

The Hechinger Report highlights how financial assistance, academic support, and practices that encourage learning and community are key to four colleges’ success in graduating low-income students.

First-generation students make up 38% of the Class of 2028 at Ohio Wesleyan University. An alumna hopes her $12 million estate commitment will support their success at an institution that…

University of California researchers say an additional Pell Grant based on household wealth could help close racial gaps in college attendance and completion.

Georgetown Law Center’s Early Outreach Initiative is partnering with dozens of high schools and organizations to reach teens from underserved communities and ensure they have the awareness and tools to…

Mentoring, guest speaking, and providing academic and career guidance are some of the ways alumni can help increase access to social capital, or the personal and professional connections that unlock…

The Chronicle of Higher Education explored the difficulties unaccompanied homeless youth and at-risk students experienced this summer amid the chaotic rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

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…