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Common or Elitist?
New battle emerges over online tools to let students apply with ease to many institutions. Is the Common Application about to face an entirely different form of competition?
Calculation That Doesn't Add Up
When critics question the validity of the calculations U.S. News & World Report uses to rank colleges, one answer the...
Hiding Adjuncts From 'U.S. News'
Everyone knows that adjuncts and graduate assistants do a lot of the teaching these days, right? Well, maybe not everyone...
SAT Scores Drop, Gaps Grow
By wealth and ethnicity, those groups that were doing well gain even more.
Competition vs. Learning
It's harder to get into top colleges. But do long odds encourage students to learn more or game the system? Study finds minimal evidence of the former, and much of the latter.
Rankings Frenzy '09
Even before the midnight embargo lifted last night, colleges started sending out announcements about how they fared in this year's...
Reputation Without Rigor
The assessment survey used in U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings is subject to apathy and glaring disparities, an Inside Higher Ed review reveals.
Damning Report on Illinois Scandal
State inquiry into "clout" admissions places the blame on both trustees and top administrators.