Low-income students

The Department of Education hopes to improve students’ experiences with the new 2025-26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), but some are still struggling with the fallout from the…

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.

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

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…

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…

Some U.S. college students are preparing to begin fall classes, while others are still waiting for their financial aid letters after the troubled rollout of the new Free Application for…

Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, a new book by Anthony Abraham Jack, explores how colleges can improve their support of low-income students.

Meet Haroot Hakopian, Georgetown’s assistant dean of student affairs in the School of Continuing Studies, and the academic and curriculum director of the Summer College Immersion Program.