Student success

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…

Two brothers will donate millions to San Diego State University’s Black Resource Center in honor of the Black couple who helped their Chinese American parents find a home in San…

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…

Anne Kim, a senior fellow at FutureEd—a think tank based at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy—recently highlighted the limitations of traditional remedial education and the slow uptake of…

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.

For the third year in a row, more high school students are taking college courses and earning college credit through dual enrollment programs.

Colleges are revamping first-year orientation programs to ensure students feel a sense of belonging and can thrive in campus life.

In a new report, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce forecasts that by 2031, 85% of jobs that pay a living wage or more will be held by…

A new study from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce looks at law school graduates’ median earnings and law school debt, finding that the best returns on investment…