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Transparency and Agents
At American International Recruitment Council annual conference, members discuss what should be required of universities and their overseas recruitment agents vis-á-vis transparency.
Making Nice
Using commission-based agents in international recruitment has gone from unmentionable to mainstream. At 5th annual conference, a group formed to bring standards to the practice reflects on where it has been and where it's going.
Delay for New SAT
The new test will debut in 2016, not 2015. Will it lose more market share to the ACT before the launch?
Affirmative Action Alive and Dead
Study finds evidence that state bans on consideration of race in admissions have a significant impact – and one that extended to some nearby states without bans.
The Future Grad Students
New data from ETS illustrate gaps by race and nationality in GRE scores, and differences between graduate population of Americans and non-Americans.
To Be a Black Man at UCLA
A student's video prompts a different kind of discussion about race.
Opinion
When a Better Ranking Is a Bad Thing
Many of the criteria of U.S. News reward philosophies that public universities should be running away from, not embracing, writes Robert J. Sternberg.
Opinion
Becoming an Admissions Dean
Angel B. Perez considers how one prepares for a job that people don't grow up aspiring to have.