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Resignations at ‘Third World Quarterly’
Much of the journal’s editorial board resigns, saying that a controversial article arguing in favor of colonialism failed to pass peer review but was published anyway -- and that the journal’s editor then misrepresented the process.

Is Retraction the New Rebuttal?
Controversy over paper in favor of colonialism sparks calls for retraction as well as worries that academics are relying more on erasure than counterargument to challenge unpopular scholarship.

Opinion
Why Racial Preferences Remain Wrongheaded
Those who defend them should consider whether they’d require them indefinitely and whether such a requirement is consistent with good race relations in the country America is becoming, argues Roger Clegg.

Opinion
Ethical College Admissions: Trump and Other Parents Writing What They Shouldn't
Jim Jump writes that parents shouldn’t be finishing any part of their children’s applications.

Opinion
Why Chief Academic Officers Should Also Be Chief Enrollment Officers
Matthew Poslusny writes that provosts should have responsibility for both recruiting and retaining students.
The Week in Admissions News
Admissions and race, a governor’s complaint, college-going rates, challenges for the liberal arts.

'Should I Try to Be Less Asian?'
Experts at NACAC meeting say perceptions of bias against Asian-American applicants, even if false, have an impact.

At University of Texas at Austin, 10% Has Become 6%
With number of high school graduates in the state growing, UT invokes state law that allows flexibility in requirement that top 10 percent be admitted.
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