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Capital Campaigns Make a Comeback
During the pandemic, fundraising mainly supported emergency funds to keep students healthy and enrolled in college. This fall, colleges are unveiling broad capital campaigns that they’d put on hold.
International Enrollments Begin to Recover
Colleges report a 68 percent surge in new international students enrolled this fall, following steep pandemic-related drops last year. The Open Doors survey also tracks the pandemic’s effect on study abroad.
Recentering the Bright Sheng Debate
A dozen University of Michigan professors argue that the controversy over a blackface Othello is more about teaching preparation than free expression, and that better university training and protocols could have lessened the fallout for everyone involved.
Survey: Black Student Borrowers Skip Meals to Cut Costs
A recent survey found that 44 percent of student loan borrowers at historically Black colleges and universities and 29 percent...
Changing Perceptions, One Story at a Time
A team of students is producing a podcast that seeks to undercut the stigma of attending a community college while answering the larger question of what it means for a college to be considered a “good school.”
The Week in Admissions News
Bringing pets to campus; affirmative action case appealed to Supreme Court; Stanford stays test optional; fixing FAFSA verification.
How the Build Back Better Act Would Help Dreamers in College
Democrats’ big social spending plan would provide much-need federal financial aid to undocumented students—but only a fraction of them.
More Than Just Preparing for College
High school counselors assert that they are responsible for students’ social and emotional development.