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"Our colleges have lost the most effective tool they ever had for building diverse campus communities," says Education Secretary Miguel Cardona

The start of this year’s application cycle was more momentous than usual, as colleges introduced new essay prompts and adjusted requirements for a post–affirmative action world. Even in a typical year, Aug. 1 is a big day for college admissions. It’s launch day for the Common App, the 1,000-member platform for college applications, and the beginning of many months of preparation and nervous anticipation for parents and applicants of all ages. Many college counselors refer to it as “admis...

Has Virginia Tech changed its legacy admissions policy? What is UVA’s legacy admissions policy?

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Recent data indicate college presidential terms are getting shorter. Those findings were illustrated by five sudden presidential departures in late July. The end of July brought a flurry of sudden presidential resignations. Over the course of a week, presidents stepped down at Stanford University, Texas A&M University, Seton Hall University, Thomas Jefferson University and Berklee College of Music. Their reasons for resigning are as varied as the institutions they led, with some departing am...

University officials can promote retention and belonging among student parents by providing physical spaces on campus for them—and their children—to thrive. Student parents make up around 22 percent of all learners in higher education, and over half of them are single parents. As single parents, students often require additional support and resources to juggle both their academics and their responsibilities to their child or children.

The ban on affirmative action has put pressure on selective colleges to end legacy preferences in admissions. But the advantages of familial wealth go beyond alumni status. As the tremors of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action continue to reverberate across higher education, legacy admits are poised to become the next domino to fall.

The Biden administration says the Colorado campuses of CollegeAmerica, a defunct for-profit college, lied to students, so the Education Department is forgiving their loans and offering refunds. Thousands of students who attended a now-defunct for-profit college in Colorado will see their federal student loan balances zeroed out after the U.S. Education Department found their college misled them about the salaries they could earn and their job prospects.

Texas A&M already lost its president in the wake of a Texas Tribune article on the mishandled hiring of a Black professor. Now, the Tribune connects politics to the investigation of a current professor. On Friday morning, Texas A&M University announced its president had retired, citing the ongoing controversy over A&M mishandling the hiring of a Black professor.

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