By Megan Starling. “It’s great to see you, Megan! How are things at Rhodes? How much longer do you think you’ll stay in admission?” 
That line of questioning is not unfamiliar to me, even while catching up with friends at the National Association for College Admission Counseling’s annual conference. One session offered at the most recent meeting, in September in Toronto, questioned why more women don’t serve in the highest leadership positions on college campuses, including the office of admission. More...

By Derek Bok. Graduate study for the Ph.D. in the United States presents a curious paradox. Our universities have developed thousands of distinguished scientists and scholars. More than half the winners of Nobel Prizes in the sciences and economics from 1997 to 2007 did their graduate work in this country, continuing a pattern that has persisted since the end of World War II. Students all over the world come here for graduate training, and universities in many other nations have expanded and reformed their doctoral programs to resemble our method more closely. More...

By Dayna Catropa. The American Marketing Association’s Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education is in Boston this week and the event is off to a great start. After the first day of presentations, one idea seems consistent -- the importance of simplifying when it comes to marketing messaging and design. This idea surfaced in discussions about website design, communicating with internal audiences, reaching prospective students and measuring results. Read more...