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Students' Hateful Speech Results in Rescinded Acceptance
Jun 05, 2020
Incoming and current college students are being reported to their universities for racist speech on social media related to national discussions on police brutality and racial injustice.
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Students' admission rescinded in response to racist online speech
June 5, 2020

Incoming and current college students are being reported to their universities for racist speech on social media related to national discussions on police brutality and racial injustice.

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Amid a pandemic, May 1 -- National College Decision Day -- means less than ever this year
May 1, 2020

With hundreds of colleges extending their deposit deadlines due to the pandemic, May 1 means less than ever this year.

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University of California faculty decline to endorse test-optional admissions
February 4, 2020

The University of California's Academic Senate declines to endorse test-optional admissions policies for the system.

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The recent case at Harvard University reinforces the need for holistic admissions (opinion)
November 12, 2019

The lesson of the recent case at Harvard University is that colleges and universities must do more to fully recognize their students as whole people, writes Margaret M. Chin.

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New first-time graduate school enrollments are way up for ethnic minorities
October 8, 2019

New graduate school enrollments continue to fall among international students, but underrepresented U.S. minority enrollments are way up.

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Thorstein Veblen's writings about the rich are relevant to the ongoing admission scandal (opinion)
July 3, 2019

Several characterizations of the wealthy in his writings seem especially relevant to the ongoing admissions scandal, Mike Martin observes.

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We should focus less on admissions cheaters and more on helping less privileged students (opinion)
March 22, 2019

We should trade outrage and disgust for promise and opportunity, argues Rick Dalton.

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Wake Forest professors demand that university do more about photographs of admissions leaders
March 20, 2019

Arts and sciences faculty vote overwhelmingly to condemn university's response to discovery that two admissions leaders -- while students in the 1980s -- posed in front of Confederate flags.

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Colleges should let internal auditors loose on admissions offices in wake of scandal (opinion)
March 18, 2019

Ramping up scrutiny of their admissions practices could threaten selective colleges' fund-raising efforts -- but the risks of not doing so are much greater, writes Ryan Craig.

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Elite colleges need to be less elitist (opinion)
March 15, 2019

The current admissions scandal is a reminder of the dangers of elitism in higher education that assumes limited role for nonelite institutions, writes Seamus Carey.

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