We Now Know A Lot More About Students Who Receive Federal College Grants
Several new reports offer insight on how well colleges and universities are serving their low-income students.
There's been a lot of attention lately on low-income students on campus — mostly on how to recruit them and how to make them feel welcome.
For good reason: Pell Grant recipients make up about a third of the undergraduate student population in the U.S., according to the College Board. And often, their experiences in college are very different than their wealthy classmates.
Two recent reports offer a good snapshot as to what's researchers at The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education and Penn AHEAD at the University of Pennsylvania. The other is from the centrist Democratic .
