By Doug Lederman. After years of debate and false starts, the American Bar Association's accrediting arm on Friday toughened its requirement on the rate at which a law school's graduates must pass the bar for the school to be accredited. More...
By Doug Lederman. "Student Success for Life: How Colleges Prepare Graduates for Careers" is Inside Higher Ed's new print-on-demand compilation of articles.
You may download a copy here, free. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, a group that has long criticized standardized tests and pointed to security problems on them, revealed Thursday that it had received a call with information about questions on the SAT subject test in biology given last weekend. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Emory University on Thursday announced a $180 million grant -- the university's largest ever -- to support its Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network, which works to prevent child mortality in developing countries. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses new book in which he questions whether most colleges are living up to their claims about promoting social mobility -- and whether college degrees do enough for low-income students. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Just under half of college students with credit cards (45 percent) report that they have two or more credit cards and use the multiple cards to juggle debt, according to a new survey by EVERFI. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Virginia Tech is expecting hundreds of extra freshmen to enroll this fall, so the university is offering many of them money to delay enrollment, The Roanoke Times reported. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating college applications submitted by students at the T. M. Landry College Preparatory School, a private school, The New York Times reported. The school was for many years widely praised by educators nationwide and had a reputation for graduating low-income students who enrolled at some of the top colleges in the country. More...
By Scott Jaschik. A large project sought to determine if information and reminders could change the college-going patterns of high-ability, low-income students. The patterns didn't change. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Each year, press reports focus on a few measures of the growing selectivity of colleges and universities in admissions. Typically the emphasis is on the shrinking single-digit admit rate at Ivies or Stanford University, or the only slightly better odds at elite public universities. More...
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