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Small Colleges Try to Contain COVID Clusters
Small colleges are seeing their share of COVID-19 outbreaks. Will small scale make containment easier than it's proving to be at large universities with more resources?
Cross-Campus Comparisons on COVID Aren't Easy
Public universities in Illinois vary in their COVID-testing capacity and reporting protocols, raising questions about how complete a picture some campuses may have of the rate of infection.
Be Careful What You Wish For
Study finds that when top colleges give more weight to interviews and essays, seeking more diversity, they may get less. Giving less weight to standardized testing, on the other hand, works.
Failure to Communicate
Professor suspended for saying a Chinese word that sounds like a racial slur in English.
Academic Minute: College Choice Among First-Generation Students
Today on the Academic Minute, Tiffany Cresswell-Yeager, assistant professor of higher education leadership at Gwynedd Mercy University, discusses how class...
COVID-19 Roundup: A Strike and Suspensions
Graduate students at the University of Michigan begin a work stoppage today. Four institutions go online and four hand out dozens of suspensions. The University of Alabama defends its strategy.
Bloomberg Donates $100M to Black Med Schools
Michael Bloomberg, businessman, former mayor of New York City and one-time Democratic candidate for president, announced on Thursday that his...
The Week in Admissions News
Latinx challenges; civil liberties and suspensions; student trust; Airbnb rules.