Georgia State Reinvents Itself as an Engine of Social Mobility

Shantil Jones, a criminal justice major at Georgia State, gets ready for her graduation ceremony at the home she and her mother, Fay, right, share in Collge Park outside Atlanta, May 9, 2018. Downtown Atlanta’s once-unremarkable commuter school was kept racially segregated until the 1960s; today Georgia State awards more bachelor degrees to black students than any other American college. (Lynsey Weatherspoon/The New York Times)