Georgia state university

Georgia State University over the years has overturned received wisdom about the viability of lower-income, minority, and first-generation students. Illustration: Eric Pratt/Carolyn Richardson/ Meg Buscema/Georgia State University/The Guardian Georgia State University over the years has overturned received wisdom about the viability of lower-income, minority, and first-generation students. Illustration: Eric Pratt/Carolyn Richardson/ Meg Buscema/Georgia State University/The Guardian If anywhere was going to take a pummeling from the coronavirus, you’d think it would be a place like Georgia State is not a glamorous flagship university – that would be the University of Georgia in Athens, the spiritual home of the Bulldogs, REM and the B-52s. It’s more of a workhorse public institution, with a large population of students who come from low-income households and have to work at least one paying job outside their studies to make ends meet. Those jobs – in restaurants, in retail, in bars – largely evaporated in the spring, and most have not returned. The crisis has hit particularly hard at the lower end of the income scale – and close to 60% of Georgia State’s students are poor enough to qualify for federal aid. It has also hit African Americans and other ethnic minorities particularly hard – and 70% of Georgia State’s students are people of color. Yet Georgia State has not been pummeled. In fact, its graduation rate this spring hit a record high. So did the grade-point average ...

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