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Pandemics, Ancient and Modern: Differences and Parallels

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t the first one we’ve faced, so what can we learn from the past? In today’s Academic...

White Privilege

Study documents key ways that white (and sometimes Asian) students have an advantage in admissions over Black and Latinx students.

Law Students Protest Research Database Contracts With ICE

Students at multiple law schools are pressuring administrators to sever ties with LexisNexis and Westlaw, which they claim help the Department of Homeland Security target undocumented immigrants.

Feds Will Establish Rule-Making Committee for Early 2022

The Department of Education announced Friday in an unofficial notice that it will establish the Institutional and Programmatic Eligibility Committee...

An ‘Unbelievable Comeback’

Enrollment swelled at Spartanburg Community College this fall as students took advantage of a free tuition initiative. It was a stark contrast to ongoing enrollment declines at community colleges across the country.

Columbia Student Fatally Stabbed Near Campus

A graduate student at Columbia University died, and another man was wounded, after they were stabbed in Upper Manhattan Thursday...

Annual Higher Ed Funding Delayed

Congress passed a temporary measure to avoid a government shutdown, but that means higher education spending levels will remain as is until February—at least.

The Week in Admissions News

More guilt in admissions scandal; M.B.A.s and testing; report on free speech; what to do about student debt.