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The Week in Admissions News
Common App study of applicants who apply to many colleges; campaign to prove “college is worth it”; bridges to the liberal arts for community colleges.
No Discipline Is Less Valuable Than Another
Discounting humanities tuition is a slippery slope built on unchallenged and false assumptions about the value of the disciplines.
$100 Million Gift to Johns Hopkins in Bologna
Johns Hopkins University has announced a $100 million gift for School of Advanced International Studies campus in Bologna, Italy. The...
College Towns for Students on a Budget
A new study examines which college towns are the best places for students on a budget, The New York Times...
Making Blood Stem Cells on a Microchip
Stem cell research can be politically divisive. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of New South Wales’s Robert Nordon says...
Building Bridges to the Liberal Arts
Campus leaders at Vassar College want to create new pipelines from community colleges to liberal arts institutions.
New Campaign Wants to Prove ‘College Is Worth It’
The National Association of System Heads begins an initiative to bolster the public’s view of higher education by demonstrating—and where necessary improving—how the institutions drive social mobility and individual "prosperity."
Is a Deal Between 44 Texas Colleges and Elsevier ‘Historic’?
Some laud the agreement. Others say it falls short. If nothing else, the deal offers an example of how a collection of colleges is navigating a tense academic publishing ecosystem.