Admissions

In five years, there will be a new test or UC will abandon use of standardized tests in admissions.

Experts consider the implications of the University of California's decision to create a new admissions test.

What motivates people to wear masks, the effects of social isolation on children and the elderly, infection rates among the incarcerated. These are just some of the COVID-19 research topics social scientists are investigating right now.

Surveys show students want a fall semester as close as possible to last fall's. They may transfer if they don't get it.

Report says they need more education, but they also may not turn to colleges.

But organization is sued over rules that were in place for students unable to submit their answers.

That's what the University of California has created in admissions, writes David Benjamin Gruenbaum.

Students can learn content and skills but shouldn't fool themselves that they are taking college courses, writes Nicholas Tampio.