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Admissions Staff Accountability and Travel

Don’t throw the student recruitment baby out with the COVID bathwater, write Robert Massa and Bill Conley.

Hampshire Admits All Students From New College of Florida

College says it is responding to “the continuing attacks on New College of Florida intended to limit intellectual exploration, turn back progress toward inclusion, and curtail open discussion of race, injustice, and histories of oppression.”

A Journal Article on Gay People, to Be Viewed With Caution

A peer-reviewed journal placed a warning to readers last month on a flawed article from 2001. But the journal hasn’t retracted it, as a professor who discovered errors has called for.

The Week in Admissions News

Decline in degrees awarded; free community college; boosting Black enrollment.
Irena Smith’s The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admission Essays (SheWritesPress)

A College Counselor’s Insightful Memoir

A Russian émigré turned college counselor discusses the role of education in the immigrant experience, how AI might change college admissions and how she pushes students to think about who they really are.

Transfers From Community College Continue to Fall

Despite the decline in transfers, a new report also says six-year college completion rates among transfer students improved.

New Competition for Naviance

MaiaLearning and Scoir are gaining ground against the company that has been a dominant college planning tool for students and schools.

Bard College Drops Out of ‘U.S. News’ Rankings

The college is the third undergraduate institution to withdraw in a month.