Student success

Last month, new stakeholders joined the growing effort to create accelerated degree programs that reduce the time and money it takes to earn a bachelor’s degree.

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

Georgetown grads who received federal aid earn a median salary that is double the midpoint for four-year colleges overall, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.

The Chronicle of Higher Education highlights Indiana-based DePauw University, which is spending more than twice its peers to meet students’ needs.

Some students are earning bachelor’s degrees in mere weeks through online programs that allow them to take as many classes as they choose, leaving educators concerned about the quality of…

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…

U.S. colleges and universities are rapidly developing reduced-credit bachelor’s degrees in response to economic and enrollment challenges, and to meet workforce needs.

According to a recent analysis by The New York Times, the number of college students reporting a disability has increased over the last decade. Colleges are responding by offering accommodations…

For-profit institutions enroll a large share of Black students and leave them with higher student loan debt than their peers at nonprofit institutions, according to a new report from The…

Georgetown alumnus Rashawn Davis (C’14) discusses the role the Community Scholars Program played throughout his journey as a first-generation college student and how that experience has shaped his post-graduate career.