Higher Ed Data Stories
DECEMBER 23, 2022
However, critics of test optional like to trot out this study from 2014 , suggesting test-optional policies do not increase diversity. Finally, admissions, opportunity, culture, and policy are complex. The next two shows those same institutions, broken out by college, year, and ethnicity: First, African American and then Hispanic.
University Business
MAY 30, 2024
On the flipside, admissions staff at colleges and universities across the country have seen countless numbers of ChatGPT-generated college essays, which at the very least compromises the legitimacy of the applicant’s story in their eyes. That’s what we’re doing at my college. The problem is not the technology itself.
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University Business
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
University officials hope to limit the spread of COVID-19 on campus. The new COVID-19 policy reads, in part: “All students living on-campus will need to isolate at their permanent home or another off-campus location if they test positive.” Even then, there’s another five days of masking and dining alone.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 22, 2024
However, pervasive inequitable issues in education make K-12 schools the breeding ground for anti-Black racism across policy and practice. For example, schools very often engage in zero tolerance discipline policies and practices that thrust Black children into the school-to-prison nexus. Toward this end, the U.S.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 22, 2023
The College of St. John’s University for men added a new policy explicitly allowing nonbinary students to attend either campus, cementing their support for LGBTQ+ rights. A pair of Catholic institutions in Minnesota—the College of St. Benedict, a women’s college, and St. Benedict for women and St.
University Business
MARCH 12, 2024
The head of the NAACP is calling on Black student-athletes to reconsider their decisions to attend public colleges and universities in Florida, challenging a new state policy that bars those institutions from using government funds on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Read more from NBC News.
Higher Ed Data Stories
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
I started this visualization to show how first-year classes at the highly rejective colleges had changed since COVID-19 forced them all to go to a test-optional approach for the Fall of 2021. This is not to say that any individual college selected either required tests or went test-optional in those years, but rather shows the national trend.
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