Filter & Sort
App’s Private Aid Algorithm Promises Fast Cash
Start-up uses an algorithm developed by Sara Goldrick-Rab to approve student emergency aid applications quickly. Experts say the outsourcing can work, if known pitfalls can be avoided.
Transfer Enrollment Drops
Far fewer students are transferring to community colleges this spring compared to the same time last year, a trend that mirrors overall enrollment declines in the two-year sector.
A Big Budget From Biden
President’s proposed budget increases funding for Pell Grants, minority-serving institutions, research and more. But higher education organizations and experts say there are a few other things they would have liked to see.
The Week in Admissions News
A blogger's perspective; accidental admissions; higher education's challenges; dormitories and race; LGBTQ inclusion in athletics.
Opinion
What Admissions Decisions Really Mean
Patrick O’Connor offers three important things for students to remember about why colleges reject applicants.
Academic Minute: Deliberate Practice and Teaching
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Penn State University Week: Bill Goffe, teaching professor of economics, explores how to...
Following Student Death, Bowling Green Expels Fraternity
A month after a student died after drinking at a fraternity party, Bowling Green State University has expelled the fraternity...
Linfield Faces Accusations of Anti-Semitism
The Pacific Northwest chapter of the Anti-Defamation League wrote a letter to Linfield University’s Board of Trustees on Thursday expressing...