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Legacy Admissions Is Still Under Attack
While few colleges have moved in recent years, student groups have taken up the issue, writes Christoph Baker.
Accreditors as Referees
Don’t hate on higher ed’s refs: an accreditor’s role is to enforce the rule book for academic freedom and institutional autonomy, Jamienne Studley writes.
Loneliness as a Health Issue: Academic Minute
The Week in Admissions News
Webcast on admissions changes globally; helping rural students; the three-year bachelor’s degree.
The Benefits of Finding Flow
Even anxious, frazzled academics like myself who are struggling for some semblance of work-life balance can find it helpful in grading, teaching and writing, writes Nicole Bauer.
2.2% of This Year’s Applicants Are Trans or Nonbinary
Data come from Common App and Campus Pride as they release new guide on sex and gender questions in applications.
A Dead Professor, 2 Critical Reports and a Presidential Apology
The University of Arizona dismissed a faculty report on the murder of one of their colleagues in his workplace. The university’s own contracted report has now largely confirmed the faculty members’ work.
‘The Impact of College Diversity’
Author who first explored the impact of diversity on undergraduates in 2005 returns to her subjects as they reach 30 and finds new evidence of success of affirmative action.