Here is a round-up of admissions news from Inside Higher Ed in the last week:
- Twenty-one scholars publish call to reject current business school rankings -- and to replace them with more meaningful tools for comparisons.
- The average first-time, full-time freshman tuition discount rate at private colleges edged even closer to 50 percent in 2016-17 as net tuition revenue and enrollment struggled.
- University of Maine sleds uphill by trying to draw students from faraway California and Illinois with program matching in-state flagship rates of other states, but sees yet more gains from New England.
- More than 100 elite private high schools aim to replace traditional transcripts with competency-based, nonstandardized documents -- with no grades. They plan to expand to public high schools, with goal of completely changing how students are evaluated.
- Unusual foundation grant will pay for community colleges and four-year institutions to improve their transfer pathways, with goal of 30 percent bump in four-year degrees earned by community college graduates.
- The latest in college-coffee partnerships to encourage college-going by employees.
- Common Application plans new transfer application.
- College Board releases data on Khan tutoring.
