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What about transfers?

Higher Ed Data Stories

The world of college admission--or at least the discussion of it--is too often focused on freshman admission, and then, too often focused on freshman admission at the highly rejective colleges (h/t to Akil Bello ). People tend to think most students apply to a college at age 17 or 18, spend four years at that one institution, and then graduate. But just like the Kardashians aren't reflective of the typical American family even though they get a lot of press, neither is that little sliver of coll

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Responsibility and Free Expression

Susquehanna President's Blog

Responsibility and Free Expression A recent conversation with students led me to opine on a blog I posted in 2018. The conversation began with concerns about how government controls over Russian media are leading their coverage of the war in Ukraine to be nothing but a propaganda campaign. I told the students about a speech President Coolidge gave to the Society of Newspaper Editors in which he said, “ The relationship between governments and the press has always been recognized as a matter of l