Admissions

Admissions officers consider how to be fair on aid awards to early and regular applicants, and weigh compromise on acceptances before senior year of high school.

Presidents of top liberal arts colleges criticize ratings but refrain from joint pledge others made to stop filling out "reputational" survey.

What are the roles of race, money and athletic talent? How is merit defined? A sociologist spent 18 months in an admissions office, and shares the tensions and idealism he found.

Washington Monthly, known for ratings that tweak U.S. News, devises formula to pick top two-year colleges -- and methodology is promptly attacked.

U.S. News sees drop in college presidents willing to judge other institutions' reputations; Pell Grant population used for first time, but with minimal impact.

U.S. agency suspends all federally funded human-subjects research at West Virginia's Bluefield State College after long list of alleged violations.

Thanks to improved outreach efforts, engineering and technology universities are seeing a boost in female enrollments nearly across the board.

Tufts sees early success in adding measures of creativity, practicality and wisdom to traditional criteria for evaluating applicants.