Admissions

Student mobility fell steeply this year as colleges dealt with other enrollment challenges.

Authors withdraw controversial article concluding that working with a female mentor might hurt young scientists' careers.

Colleges will need to adjust to a shrinking, diversifying pool of traditional college-aged students in the near future. What will they need to do to be ready?

Rising graduation rates mean more high schoolers receiving diplomas than previously expected as classes diversify rapidly. But by the mid-2020s, class sizes start shrinking.

U of Texas at Austin has stopped using a machine-learning system to evaluate applicants for its Ph.D. in computer science. Critics say the system exacerbates existing inequality in the field.

From efforts to recruit students to rankings, the impact is immense, write Bill Conley and Bob Massa.