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Anti–Affirmative Action Group Settles With Military Academies
Students for Fair Admissions, the organization that successfully fought to end race-conscious admissions practices, settled with two military academies that...
Study: Eliminating Testing Requirements Can Boost Student Diversity
The percentage of underrepresented minority students increased in some cases after universities stopped requiring applicants to submit standardized test scores...
How Colleges Use Geography to Recruit Students
The long-standing practice of geographic recruitment is now under scrutiny by the Trump administration, which claims it can be unlawfully used as a proxy for race.
Lawsuit Challenges Early-Decision Admissions
A new antitrust class action lawsuit against a group of selective colleges and universities is challenging their early-decision admissions policies...
Opinion
Scoring the AP English Exam: A Diary
An English professor writes that the experience left him underwhelmed but well-fed.
Survey: Families Spending More on College
Families are spending about 9 percent more on college compared to last year, according to a recently released survey from...
Hearing Spotlights Concerns Heading Into Rule Making for ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
College leaders, students and advocates weighed in on which degree programs should face certain loan caps and how to hold certificate programs accountable, among other issues.
Trump Orders Colleges to Supply Data on Race in Admissions
The Education Secretary said later that colleges must provide annual admissions and enrollment disaggregated by race and sex, reflecting demands made of Brown and Columbia Universities in recent agreements.