Admissions

Jim Jump considers why Princeton and other competitive colleges don't want their internal admissions mechanisms shared.

By Jim Jump

At undergraduate level, Southern institutions appear to be having a tougher time attracting students from outside the U.S. Nearly half of graduate deans see declines at the master’s level, and 31 percent at the Ph.D. level.

Unfair biases lead to the undervaluation of the role of such research in the advancement of knowledge, write David S. Rovnyak and George C. Shields.

By Sarah Bray et al.

NC State wants to help solve the community college leadership pipeline problem amid broader shift in focus of doctoral training programs.

California Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal from alumni trying to block admission of women. Could six years of litigation be nearing an end?

In California and Pennsylvania, new institutions are created.

State audit releases the details on who gets in at Penn State.

Author discusses his new book on high school that prepares low-income black students for higher education -- and offers tips to colleges seeking to recruit such students.