By Scott Jaschik. About 40 faculty and staff members at Montana State University Billings received recorded racist phone calls on Thanksgiving Day, The Billings Gazette reported. More...
Why Remind Poor Students That They Are Poor?
By Scott Jaschik. Trinity in Connecticut now offers Pell-eligible students four years of institutional aid based on a single application. More...
The Box Is Alive and Well at Many Institutions
By Scott Jaschik. Debate at Princeton illustrates challenges that remain for movement to end admissions questions on criminal history. More...
Hopkins Still Figuring Out Its Post-Gift Recruiting Strategy
By Scott Jaschik. A week ago, Michael Bloomberg announced the largest gift in the history of American higher education: $1.8 billion to allow Johns Hopkins University be need-blind "forever." The university has been operating admissions need-blind -- admitting students without regard to financial need -- but had never committed to such a policy. More...
‘Research Universities and the Public Good’
By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses his new book defending research universities in an environment where their value is questioned by politicians and pundits. More...
Journal Retracts 29 Articles, Explaining Little
By Scott Jaschik. The journal IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility took the unusual step Tuesday of announcing that it was retracting 29 articles that had been published in the last two years. More...
Seattle U Law School Suspends ICE Externship
By Scott Jaschik. The law school at Seattle University has suspended an externship option for students with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, The Seattle Times reported. More...
Record Number of Female Rhodes Scholars
By Scott Jaschik. The Rhodes Trust on Sunday named 32 new winners of Rhodes Scholarships, which cover two or three years of study at the University of Oxford. More...
Another College Ends Ban on Transfer Students
By Scott Jaschik. This spring Princeton University admitted its first transfer students since 1990. The news that Princeton had an explicit policy (prior to this year) of not considering transfer applicants stunned many educators who are aware of the increasing importance of transfer admissions to many four-year institutions. More...
What High School Students Say They Seek in a College
By Scott Jaschik. Academic matters come first, but financial issues aren't far behind, federal data show. And location matters. More...