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Shrinking as a Strategy
While dozens of liberal arts colleges are banking on plans to grow, a Vermont institution doesn't think that's realistic, and has developed a path to preserve itself by getting smaller.
Opinion
A Call for President Obama
If the administration wants to help get more low-income students into top colleges, it's time to take on the rankings, writes Catharine Bond Hill.
'Undermatching' Pros and Cons
New study finds both positive and negative results of attending a less competitive college than where one might have enrolled.
Inflation Plus Whatever
Middlebury College gives itself a loophole in its plan linking tuition, room and board to inflation.
You're Admitted... Not
As more colleges send emails telling rejected applicants they have been admitted, some admissions officers share what they learned from their mistakes.
Opinion
Talk About Class
Colleges that want first-generation college students to thrive need to talk -- in supportive ways -- about the realities of social class in America and in higher education, write Nicole M. Stephens, MarYam G. Hamedani and Mesmin Destin.
Is a Criminal Past Relevant?
Some Princeton students push university to stop asking whether applicants have been convicted of anything. They say academe needs more people with experience in the justice system.
Grading the New SAT
College Board will try new approach to essay, drop the penalty for wrong answers and work with Khan Academy to provide free test-prep. Some experts like the changes (or most of them), while others see a bid to catch up to the ACT.