Enrollment

Analysis finds increasing black enrollments at Protestant colleges -- with some obtaining incredible increases.

Even after its rationale for barring illegal immigrants evaporates, North Carolina community college board keeps ban, while ordering study.

First there was West Virginia. Then Virginia Commonwealth. Now Carnegie Mellon -- where apparent fudging of rules leads to a dean's immediate resignation.

More two-year institutions, even after several years of increases, expect significant growth this year.

The average score on the SAT remained steady for the class of 2008 -- with the critical reading (502), mathematics (515) and writing (494) scores all unchanged from last year.

As is typically the case, the College Board said that the results were encouraging. “Student interest and participation in the SAT has grown to historic levels, and our outreach into minority, low-income and other underserved student groups is yielding tremendous results,” said Gaston Caperton, president of the board.

Among the sub-debates in the debates over affirmative action are questions over the relative significance of race and class. A new book attempts to explore race and class simultaneously in a college setting. In Race and Class Matters at an Elite College, Elizabeth Aries explores the insights she gained by studying four groups of students at Amherst College: affluent white students, affluent black students, white students without a lot of money and black students without a lot of money.

New research tries to shift discussion beyond enrollment rates to the actual experience of male and female students in college.

Faculty salary increases fall behind inflation -- plus lists of the universities, liberal arts colleges and community colleges that pay the most.

Latino figures show substantial gain, due in part to opening of new branches in parts of the country with large Hispanic populations.

The whole idea behind the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 -- the formal name of the biggest reform of the federal welfare system in decades -- was to push more people off the federal dole and into the work force. By that measure, it undeniably worked: Welfare rolls have declined by about half since 1996, with much of the decline attributable to the policy changes, and employment rates have grown for many of those groups historically well-represented on welfare.