Ways of measuring students' economic mobility are changing

Image:  California State University, Los Angeles serves 24,223 undergraduates, 69.8 percent of them Hispanic and 68 percent of whom are from low-income families or backgrounds. The university used funds available through the CSU system’s Graduation Initiative 2025, which was launched in 2015, to start a student success program that offers free or reduced tuition and course fees, expanded academic advising and counseling, mental health assistance, and financial help for emergency...