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The Week in Admissions News
Fee for an honors college; the impact of “prior-prior”; a critique of considering race in admissions.
The Malia Impact: Counselors Consider Growing Interest in Gap Years
Data are sparse but positive about impact of taking a year off before college.
Should Students Be Asked if Professors Are Inclusive?
Ball State Faculty Council debates how to assess commitment to diversity when using teaching evaluations, and how to phrase the question.
The Fruits of Collaboration
An alliance of 11 public research universities shows that sharing data, ideas and practices can help more low-income students graduate.
Rejecting a Speaker
Howard students shout, chant and protest through a convocation speech by the former FBI director. Others offer views on the clash of words.
Promising Data on Tenn.'s Free Community College Program
Tennessee students who participate in the state's free community college scholarship program, dubbed the Tennessee Promise, are more likely to...
Assessment Competitors Join Forces in Merger
LiveText, a provider of assessment software solutions, is merging with Taskstream-Tk20, to create the world’s largest assessment software company for...
Students and Free Speech: Was Study Valid?
Survey that attracted attention with its findings on student attitudes on First Amendment and violence turns out to have been opt-in, leading experts to criticize it as, in the words of one, “junk science.”