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Early undergraduate applications to Harvard fell by 17 percent this fall, according to data shared by the university. Harvard’s early-action...

To boost college enrollment, interventions should be happening much earlier, Donald Hossler writes.

Inside Higher Ed assesses a year of dramatic change in college admissions and predicts what the landscape might look like in 2024.

The degree to which the college admission process is a meritocracy may be in question—but it’s most certainly a luckocracy, Jim Jump writes.

Non-need-based merit aid has surged in the past decade, especially at struggling public institutions looking to boost enrollment. Some say it’s an unacknowledged equity issue.

Plummeting enrollments at Evergreen State College put deep cuts on the table. When the faculty volunteered to help recruit new students, the tide began to turn.

As enrollment challenges compound for small liberal arts colleges, some are betting big on new athletics programs, hoping they’ll result in new tuition revenue.

Demographic shifts and funding woes have led a diverse and growing array of colleges to hire recruiters who live and work hundreds of miles from campus. Is it worth it?