Low-income students

A new study focused on tenure-track professors highlights factors that can hamper first-generation college graduates’ career progression in academia and other elite professional settings.

Kentucky’s Berea College says it will be the first higher education institution in the U.S. to provide a fully funded, no-loan, four-year degree to all of its students.

A new analysis from The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs finds that an awareness gap is preventing students from seeking out available emergency aid.

Campus food pantries are working to address basic needs insecurity as college students confront higher living expenses and new financial barriers to higher education.

New York City officials are working to allocate more funds to an existing college savings program to boost higher education access for children with the greatest need.

College students who have spent time in the foster care system are finding much-needed resources through campus-based programs. Federal lawmakers also have introduced measures to boost that support, according to…

Recent graduate Alondra Herrera-Esquivel (SFS’25) reflects on the friendships she forged as an undergraduate in Georgetown’s Community Scholars Program, and the program’s role in preparing first-generation students for a new…

More than half of college students say they have faced financial difficulties that limit their ability to meet basic needs.

First-generation student Elijah Ward (C’26) didn’t think he’d be able to study abroad. At Georgetown, he found the support needed to travel and thrive.

New research from the Brookings Institution finds that since 2019-20, the inflation-adjusted cost of attending college has decreased for students from all income backgrounds when including scholarships and other discounts.