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Portrayals of college admissions in popular culture do matter, writes Jim Jump.

Whatever the judge rules, we have seen the impact of wealth, alumni connections and athletic skill in elite college admissions, writes Nicholas Soodik.

Highly selective colleges enroll modestly more veterans. And 100 higher ed leaders gather in Washington this week to keep veteran enrollments rising. That's progress, right? Wick Sloane asks.

Scott McLemee reviews Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border by Ieva Jusionyte.

Dafina-Lazarus Stewart challenges the view that student affairs administrators are socializing students into a leftist ideology.

College administrators are off the scale in relation to the rest of the nation in terms of their ideological leanings, contends Samuel J. Abrams.

In fact, argues Peter C. Herman, the question for scholars should be “Who reads us, anyway?”