Admissions

It is also changing its technology partner.

Ben Paris offers his take on the new SAT.

Jim Jump likes some things, but he also has a question.

Two years into the pandemic, Stanford University is offering junior faculty members another pretenure year or an additional quarter of research leave, plus childcare and research grants. Will other institutions follow suit?

In taking the affirmative action cases involving Harvard and UNC Chapel Hill, the Supreme Court will decide whether colleges can consider race in admissions. The advice on what to do is already pouring in.

Report by NACAC and NASFAA calls for major changes in the systems used to admit and award aid to students. Failure to do so, the report says, will perpetuate racial inequity.

As more colleges embrace the practice for a few years—or permanently—the debate is changing.