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Citing potential legal challenges, Harvard officials did not release admissions data that identifies applicants’ race or ethnicity.

Mary Churchill argues that the decision by colleges like Dartmouth, MIT, and Yale to reinstate mandatory standardized tests for admissions is a mistake.

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Good for retention or just a sop to the already rich? The Hechinger Report looks into the growing trend of companies offering private college admissions counseling services to select employees.

Good for retention or just a sop to the already rich? The Hechinger Report looks into the growing trend of companies offering private college admissions counseling services to select employees.

A growing number of companies say it's a way to keep workers. Critics call it another leg up for families that can already afford counseling.

Employers say it’s a way to attract and retain workers. Critics call it another leg up for the rich.

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to end race-based affirmative action in the college admissions process doesn’t impact those who benefit most from preferential treatment at elite schools: the children of donors, alumni and faculty and, most especially, recruited athletes.

Faculty and administrators at Harvard and other elite colleges are terrified at the prospect of being required to have race-blind admissions.

The incoming Wheelock College associate professor and Newbury Center faculty director wants to make higher education more accessible to first-gen students.