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The Enrollment PipelineProspective College Students Increasingly Say They Feel Unprepared for Higher Education
The pandemic stunted some students’ academic and emotional development, according to a new survey, and made more of them question whether college is worth the cost. -
Giving Hope
How a Student Emergency-Aid Experiment Became a Lifeline
An initiative at Milwaukee Area Technical College that put faculty and staff members in charge of offering emergency assistance to students has spread to 28 institutions. -
Country Roads: The Allure of a Rural Campus
Students describe the support they feel at West Virginia University. No matter where you are from, they say, the campus feels like home. -
Educational Mobility
White, Wealthy Students Are Overrepresented Among Common App Transfer Applicants
The Common App reports that only a quarter of applicants using its transfer platform were from underrepresented minority groups and a third were first-generation college students. -
Diminishing Access
The Post-DACA Generation Faces Steep Barriers to College in the South
Three states banned undocumented students from public institutions more than a decade ago. What happened there could spread. -
Striking an admission hurdle
Why One Admissions Official Sees Promise in a New Way of Admitting Students
How much information does a college really need to make an admission offer to a student? -
Opening the Gates
Congrats! You Didn’t Apply, but We Admitted You Anyway.
New experiments are short-circuiting the admissions process. Here’s why they matter. -
Advice
It’s Time to Disrupt Your Approach to Advising
Academic advising is a wicked problem for most colleges. Let’s stop pretending it’s not. -
Race on Campus
What High-School Counselors Aren’t Telling Black Students
White counselors are less likely than Black counselors to know about HBCUs and more likely to diminish the value of the institutions, researchers say.
