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Paper: Highly Selective Private Colleges Could Diversify Student Bodies by Changing Admissions Practices
A new working paper suggests that highly selective private colleges could change the makeup of their student bodies (and the...
Anthropologists Vote to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
About seven in 10 of the 37 percent of members who voted backed the resolution. A similar measure in 2016, with half of AAA members voting, failed.
End Admissions Preferences for Athletes
Admissions preferences for athletes favor wealthy, white families and corrupt youth sport, Rick Eckstein and Linda Flanagan write.
Wesleyan and U of Minnesota Drop Legacy Admissions
Wesleyan University will no longer consider applicants’ ties to alumni in admissions decisions, the institution announced last week. Wesleyan president...
Data Analysis Shows Leftward Shift in How College Towns Vote
As American college towns vote in greater numbers for Democratic candidates, Republicans are worried that the margin of victory will...
The Week in Admissions News
A longer wait for student loan relief; stagnant Latino graduation rates; a new cyberscam.
President Quits Weeks After Controversy Over Twitter Likes
Mark Tykocinski has resigned as president of Thomas Jefferson University and as dean of the university’s medical school, The Philadelphia...