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Perceived Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Everyone is stressed during the COVID-19 pandemic. In today’s Academic Minute, part of Franklin and Marshall College Week, Harriet Okatch...
Are Recommendation Letters a Form of Discrimination?
Most four-year colleges require them for admission, but some say they favor wealthy, white students.
Students File Legal Complaints to Force Divestment
Students have long called on colleges to divest their endowments from fossil fuels. Now organizers at MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Vanderbilt and Yale are deploying the law to end such investments.
What is… the ‘Jeopardy!’ College Championship?
In tonight’s final episode, three students compete for $250,000 and the title of Jeopardy! College Champion. Meet some of the contestants who participated in the tournament this year.
Opinion
More Police on Campus Won’t Prevent Gun Violence
Instead, urban universities should reckon with long-standing failures to prioritize the well-being of their communities and make meaningful, unconditional investments, Charles H. F. Davis III writes.
The Week in Admissions News
Parent sentenced; governor seeks to help Berkeley; NCAA warms to test optional; report on what families don’t know; Purdue’s gender gaps.
A Pathway Out of Intergenerational Poverty
Paul Quinn College surprised more than 400 high school seniors who were visiting the campus with offers of admission for them and their family members.
Perceived Stress During the Pandemic: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Franklin and Marshall College Week: Harriet Okatch, assistant professor in the department of...