Filter & Sort
Emoji: Language or Communication?
What’s your favorite emoji? In today’s Academic Minute, part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Week, Benjamin Weissman surveys this common form...
Direct Admissions Takes Off
At West Texas A&M, at Minnesota’s colleges and with the Common App, colleges are dropping applications as a requirement to be admitted.
A Merger Doesn’t Happen, and an Art Institute Ends
San Francisco Art Institute ceases operations after an effort to merge into University of San Francisco is rejected.
Harvard Lobbies Congress to Cut Endowment Tax
Harvard is pushing Senate Democrats to consider reducing the controversial tax that draws an estimated $50 million annually from its $39 billion endowment. Many wealthy private universities want the tax eliminated.
The Week in Admissions News
Student voting; grants for low-income students; low wages for graduates of cosmetology schools; Otterbein and Antioch U create a new system.
The Unranking of 10 Colleges
U.S. News removes the rankings of colleges that provided false information.
Wesleyan Leaves Posse Program
Program says it lost some of its ability to recruit veterans during the pandemic but is coming back strong.
Undergraduates Produce Usable Data for Scientists
Roosevelt University undergraduates engaged in a community science project that produced usable data for scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum.