Admissions

First-ever national survey of postdocs who are parents reveals a lack of access to paid parental leave, pressures to return to work early and extra stressors for parents of color.

George Pruitt, retiring after 35 years as president of Thomas Edison State University, surveys the landscape.

Two years into an unusual approach to international admissions, University of San Francisco finds that it's working.

Another women's colleges goes completely coeducational, renewing discussion of viability of single-sex colleges -- and of institutions that start to recruit male students.

The queries typically focus on intellectual questions. One of them this year offers a chance at humor.

Jim Jump asks whether colleges' practices contribute to gender inequities.

Adolescents who see widespread layoffs around them as they grow up are less likely to enroll in college -- even if no one in their family loses a job.