Low-income students

Community colleges and minority-serving institutions are finding ways to support underrepresented students in pursuing STEM careers.

Education firm EAB has identified more than 100 barriers to student success—including five especially surprising leading indicators of demographic disparities in retention, graduation, career, and other key outcomes.

A higher education nonprofit is working with dozens of colleges and universities to revamp their large, introductory courses, which for years have been barriers to success for first-generation, low-income, and…

A growing number of colleges and universities are focusing on rural students as a distinct demographic group, recognizing that they face unique obstacles to college enrollment and completion.

A new survey of enrollment leaders at 159 colleges and universities across the country shows how enrollment practices could potentially change following updates to the National Association for College Admission…

Everyone makes trade-offs in balancing family, community, education, and careers, but a new book shows how first-generation and low-income college students face especially complex ethical dilemmas.

Medical education involves many expenses beyond tuition—a nearly constant stream of fees that can prove especially challenging for aspiring physicians from low-income families.

Jack joined Georgetown Professor Marcia Chatelain in a campus conversation sponsored by the Georgetown Scholars Program.

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid purports to determine college students’ need for financial assistance, but the formula used to calculate families’ expected contribution often leaves them facing a…

At a time when many colleges are working to diversify their athletics rosters, Amherst College says its initiative to recruit student-athletes of color can and should be replicated at institutions…