How new scholarship programs saved UT Austin's Pell enrollment

Most people in higher education have heard the bad news by now: enrollment is down, for pretty much everyone, across nearly all student demographics, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. Much of the loss is concentrated among community colleges and students of color. Renewals of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid were down nearly 5 percent for students from the lowest-income backgrounds. The typical countercyclical nature of higher education enrollment -- when employment rates...