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Opinion

Choosing a College: The Virtues of a Good Misfit

All the talk about helping prospective students find "the perfect fit" may be discouraging them from truly valuable experiences at colleges where they may thrive, writes Diana Senechal.

Decline Found in Colleges That Check Applicants' Social Media

Part of the shift may relate to increased popularity of sites on which posts are easier to hide.

The Week in Admissions News

Students and careers; parent borrowing; Chinese enrollments.

The Impact of Holistic Admissions

LSU finds increased diversity with its first class using a new system. But not everyone is applauding the switch.

You're Fired

Professor says she's "terminating" Michigan State as her employer after it ignored her harassment complaints against an administrator and then pursued what she calls cooked-up research misconduct allegations against her.
Opinion

Making Race-Conscious Affirmative Action a Scapegoat

The recent challenges are at best mistaken and at worst malicious, argues Michele S. Moses.

Insuring Against Drop in Chinese Students

U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is paying $424,000 to protect itself in case of a falloff.

Did Rice Scholar Assist in Banned Research?

University to investigate whether a physics and bioengineering professor was involved in a banned genome-editing procedure that allegedly produced the world's first genetically edited babies.