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HBCUs

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Experts Divided Over Impact of Absent Father-themed College Admission Essays New Fund for Low-Income California Students Enables Donor Tax Breaks  Department of Education Criticized for Not Using Accreditor Sanction Data Do Community College Credentials Pay Off?

December 26, 2014

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Researchers Mobilize to Preserve U.S. College Major Question on Census Survey

Researchers and others have opposed a Census Bureau proposal that would drop a college major survey question from the American Community Survey.

December 25, 2014

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Johns Hopkins Mistakenly Welcomes Wrong Students

Johns Hopkins University mistakenly sent nearly 300 applicants welcome messages when they were actually rejected or deferred, and now the school has issued an apology.

December 17, 2014

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First Lady Lends Hand to College Application Push at Capital City Public Charter School

First Lady Michelle Obama visited the school to encourage the Class of 2015 as they walked their college applications to a mail bin as part of the school’s second annual “College March.”

December 7, 2014

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Professors Examine Affirmative Action And Racial Stereotypes in Higher Education

According to research done by two law professors at the University of California, Berkley, ending affirmative action in schools will not eliminate racial stereotypes.

November 2, 2014

Sports

The Secret Sauce of College Admissions

The truth is that selectivity is often based on how you measure and value it.

October 29, 2014

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College Applicants Get Chance to Visually Make Their Case

Goucher College is overlooking grades and standardized testing for a video application.

October 26, 2014

Sports

Federal Appeals Court Won’t Reinstate Discrimination Suit Against Savannah State

A federal appeals court has refused to reinstate a discrimination case against Savannah State University by four White football recruits who were offered athletic scholarships by a White head coach but didn’t receive them from the coach’s Black replacement.

October 13, 2014

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College of Charleston Considers Top 10 Percent Admissions Plan

College administrators should be completing a plan within the next few weeks that will ensure admissions to the top 10 percent of graduating high school seniors from three counties in the Charleston metropolitan area.

September 11, 2014

Students

Women’s Colleges Address Transgender Applicants

Women’s colleges are revisiting policies around enrolling transgender students as institutions of higher learning ― single-sex, coed and those with religious affiliations ― demonstrate varying degrees of acceptance for changing norms.

September 10, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Some Helicopter Parents Have Evolved Into Snow Plow Parents

From college campuses to workplaces, a number of parents have deeply imposed themselves into their children’s lives even once they reach adulthood.

August 26, 2014

Opinion

Increasing College Diversity

In most four-year college strategic plans, there is a good-faith statement calling for increasing diversity as an institutional goal. There are good — even noble — reasons for doing so.

August 20, 2014