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Decline in Male, Black and Latino Students Planning on College
For the high school Class of 2022, they all showed declines in the percentage wanting to go to college, compared to the last class before the pandemic.
The Economic Cost of Critical Infrastructure Disruptions
Infrastructure can be costly even in the best of times. In today’s Academic Minute, part of University at Albany Week...
An Off-Brand Hire
Can a white woman from outside higher ed lead marketing and recruitment at an all-male historically Black college? Morehouse College leaders decided she could. Some alumni strongly disagree.
How Al Roker and the Faculty Helped Land Students
At SUNY Oswego, officials declared that everyone—including alumni and professors—was involved in admissions, and it worked.
An Academic Influences a Killer
The Buffalo shooter drew inspiration from a University of Notre Dame professor, among others. What’s to be done about academic racism and its apparent link to race-based violence?
Filling Up on Free Classes
Institutions are offering additional, less costly and even free summer courses this year as an option for students who fell behind or got off track during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Week in Admissions News
Record high for discount rates; Boston U orientation director resigns; New York’s free tuition primarily helps middle-income students; AP in precalculus; will Biden forgive all debt?
Opinion
Diversity Statements Are the New Faith Statements
The diversity statements secular colleges increasingly require of faculty candidates have many similarities to the faith statements long required by religious institutions, Justin P. McBrayer writes.