Project Status: Implementation
Eliminate small but consequential financial barriers that prevent Portland State students from persisting or completing their degrees. Modeled on Georgia State University’s successful completion grant program, this initiative combines completion grants for near-graduates with microgrants for students facing one-time financial challenges to paying tuition and fees.
Core Goal: Increase persistence, reduce stop-outs, and improve degree completion—especially for Pell-eligible, first-generation, parenting, and working students.
Target Population: Undergraduates in their final term at PSU with an outstanding balance; includes Seniors with 150+ credits completed and who have reached or are close to their federal aid limit.