By Mitch Gerber. When a study found that the business school at the University of Missouri at Kansas City boasted the world’s No. 1 program in innovation-management research, officials from the chancellor on down basked publicly in the news.
Now an investigation by The Kansas City Star has cast substantial doubt on that glowing result. More...

By Andy Thomason. Adjunct professors would become eligible for a federal student-loan-forgiveness plan available to public servants under the terms of a bill introduced on Thursday by Sen. Richard A. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program allows employees of nonprofit organizations—including full-time professors at public universities—to have their federal student loans forgiven after making 120 payments while working in that capacity. More...

By Andy Thomason. The governor of Missouri has called for an investigation into the validity of rankings that prominently featured the University of Missouri at Kansas City’s business school. Gov. Jay Nixon sent a letter to the university’s Board of Curators after an investigation by The Kansas City Star revealed previously undisclosed relationships between the university and the two authors of a study that ranked the Henry W. Bloch School of Management as No. 1 in the world in innovation management research. More...

By Nick DeSantis. A set of papers released on Thursday by the public-policy firm HCM Strategists focuses on ways that regional universities can improve access and affordability for low-income students. The papers are part of a project called “Maximizing Resources for Student Success,” which was financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. More...

By Nick DeSantis. Report: “Nasfaa Task Force Report: Public Service Loan Forgiveness”
Organization: National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (Nasfaa)
Summary: Nasfaa’s Public Service Loan Forgiveness Task Force offers several policy recommendations for improving the loan-forgiveness program.
Among them is limiting the amount of debt that can be forgiven. More...

By Eric Hoover. The 2014-15 Common Application will go live at 8 a.m. on Friday, which means this nation of eager-beaver college applicants can start their apps before breakfast. As many as 50,000 high-school students are expected to create accounts over the next few days. Following  a difficult cycle for the Common App, admissions officers and college counselors will be watching the online system closely over the coming months. More...

By Eric Hoover. Welcome to the admissions profession, the career you just fall into. Please make eye contact with each prospective student when describing this great campus, but remember, this isn’t marketing, OK? Learn everything about data. Technology, too. As for those nerves: Sooner or later, you just get used to all the administrators, trustees, and professors watching our office like half-starved hawks. More...

By Eric Hoover. Temple University will no longer require ACT or SAT scores for admission starting in the fall of 2015, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Tuesday. Under Temple’s new policy, applicants who do not submit test scores will answer written “self-reflective short-answer questions,” according to Temple’s website. More...

By Eric Hoover. Alice Anne Bailey has talked with low-income students about applying to college. Often they tell her they don’t know how to do it. “They think it’s some magical process,” she said. “Someone comes and knocks on your door, and you just pack your bags and go to college.”
Ms. Bailey, director of the Go Alliance at the Southern Regional Education Board, made those remarks on Monday during a conference at Harvard University. More...