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Letting the Donor Decide
Record $50 million gift to Saint Louis University gave donors the right to help pick head of research institute and give that person a faculty title. Professors see dangerous erosion of academic values.
Keeping Cornell Multilingual
Arts and sciences faculty sticks with a three-course-sequence foreign language requirement, even as other institutions shrink their language requirements.
Judge Refuses to Block Lawsuit Against UNC
Suit challenges admissions policies that consider race in admissions. University questioned legal right of plaintiffs to sue.
M.B.A. Applications Drop (Except Outside the U.S.)
Meanwhile, increasing numbers of business school admissions officers are checking candidates' social media.
ACT Ends Practice Some Said Hurt Students With Disabilities
Testing organization will no longer tell colleges names of students who requested accommodations -- even if those students agreed to have some information shared.
The Week in Admissions News
International graduate enrollments; first-gen students; threat to Chinese student visas; digital LSAT.
Giving Rural Students 'the Short Box'
Colleges often go about recruiting rural students in the wrong way, admissions experts say. But they can commit to better practices if they recognize "rurality is different everywhere."
Who Tells Your Story
Students have -- at least for now -- halted a popular weekly event at Williams College, fearing that it pressures minority students to share their lives in uncomfortable ways.