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The Week in Admissions News

Fee for an honors college; the impact of “prior-prior”; a critique of considering race in admissions.

The Malia Impact: Counselors Consider Growing Interest in Gap Years

Data are sparse but positive about impact of taking a year off before college.

Fair Game?

PETA goes after a Yale postdoc for her research on birds, and some academics cry foul.

Keeping Close Tabs on the Local Job Market

St. Louis Community College’s annual employer study finds openings for middle-skilled employees but also concerns about applicants’ skills and training.

Resignations at ‘Third World Quarterly’

Much of the journal’s editorial board resigns, saying that a controversial article arguing in favor of colonialism failed to pass peer review but was published anyway -- and that the journal’s editor then misrepresented the process.

Is Retraction the New Rebuttal?

Controversy over paper in favor of colonialism sparks calls for retraction as well as worries that academics are relying more on erasure than counterargument to challenge unpopular scholarship.
Opinion

Why Racial Preferences Remain Wrongheaded

Those who defend them should consider whether they’d require them indefinitely and whether such a requirement is consistent with good race relations in the country America is becoming, argues Roger Clegg.