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How Lake Superior State Doubled Applications
Waiving application fees and letting applicants self-report test scores had an impact.
Admissions Officers Who Overshare Online
Stanford official's apparent departure is latest illustration of the dangers of social media not only to applicants, but to those who review them.
What Government Shutdown Means for Higher Ed
Student aid won't face immediate impact, but civil rights investigations are likely to halt. Research agencies are unlikely to review and act on grant proposals.
The Week in Admissions News
Students' job worries; law schools face scrutiny; Toronto's latest move on international students.
Stranger Things
Tarrant County College suspends astronomy instructor after he talked about the Koran in class in the dark, his face covered by a scarf.
CFO Gender and Decision Making
Female CFOs can be more risk averse. In today's Academic Minute, part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute week on the Academic...
Title IX Failures
Buffalo State failed to investigate an alleged sexual assault or respond to a female athlete’s requests, the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights found. The conclusions reconfirm college's obligations to investigate off-campus incidents, the department's former civil rights chief says.
Gender Bias, by the Numbers
New study says economics textbooks underrepresent women in both real-life and imagined examples -- and that fixing that could help attract more women to the field.