Admissions

For academic researchers, seed funding competitions open opportunities that were once the province of young app developers and M.B.A.s.

A requirement that research faculty members obtain grants to achieve tenure is, in some cases, patently unethical, argues Scott O. Lilienfeld.

Many community college students with high grade point averages aren't transferring to four-year institutions, new research finds, a fact some of the nation's most selective universities want to change.

New survey data challenge perceptions about first-generation college students, showing strong academic engagement and commitment to college. But the group lagged behind their peers in social comfort and resiliency.

Foreign agents are targeting research at American academic institutions, write Representatives Lamar Smith and Clay Higgins, and universities must take steps to guard against theft of sensitive information.

Eight elite private high schools drop out of the program, suggesting it has become so popular that it doesn't distinguish anyone. Admissions experts consider that claim -- and some question it, especially for those at more typical high schools.

Jun-Han Su and Hao Wu write that the university needs to assure Asian-American applicants that they aren't the subject of bias in the admissions process.

Jim Jump reviews the latest briefs. He's not convinced of discrimination, but he does have a lot of questions.