Higher education is struggling to not only have effective and fair recruiting of a diverse undergraduate population. This includes diverse students at the top of the high school graduating classes and those in the middle and bottom. The issue of poverty is less a priority unfortunately at many universities and colleges. What are the unique problems that students who come from a background of poverty and carry those issues with them to their university of choice. Poverty is a complicated issue. The issue of how universities recruit and serve students from poverty backgrounds is also complicated but does not have to be so. This article is an interesting discussion of this issue.