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The Week in Admissions News
Anger over Justice Department investigation of affirmative action; Irvine admits those whose acceptances it revoked; Rhode Island adopts free community college.
Admissions Insider: The Data on Asian Admissions
In “Admissions Insider” this week: The numbers and debate on Asian-American admissions at elite colleges and universities. Many react to...
More Evidence of Trump Impact on International Admissions
Not all prospective international students have changed their view of the United States, but plenty have -- especially from the Middle East and North Africa.
At Samford, Another Party Heard From
Alumni group accuses the administration of discrimination after it refused to recognize a gay-student group.
The Non-News of Harvard's Alleged Diversity Breakthrough
Reporters picked up report that university for first time admitted a class that was majority nonwhite. It wasn't the first time, and elite universities in the West have been more diverse than Harvard for years.
Opinion
Bad Idea About Writing: Anybody Can Teach It
The system at too many colleges is stuck in a cycle of insisting that some work is lower value than other work, then using the fact that it abuses the people who do that work as proof of its low value, argues Seth Kahn.
The Numbers and the Arguments on Asian Admissions
Justice Department inquiry renews debate over whether top colleges hold some applicants to an unfair standard -- and what the data say about Asian-American applicants.
Northwestern Professor and Oxford Employee, Wanted for Murder, Surrender
Wyndham Lathem, an associate professor at Northwestern University, and Andrew Warren, a senior treasury adviser at Somerville College, of the...