During rough economic times, it’s hard to get at the reasons college make policy changes. According to Jacques Steinberg in today’s New York Times, M.I.T. is considering an increase in the size of its student body.
On its face, this is simply a move to return the campus to the size it was back [...]
Today’s issue of Inside Higher Ed has an article about public universities eager to boost revenues–and head count–by recruiting out-of-state students.
Many public universities are facing deep budget cuts, and some are hoping to make up their revenue shortfalls by recruiting out-of-state students. The article expresses many doubts that this will be a good strategy for [...]
I recently toured several colleges in New England, including Amherst and Hampshire Colleges in Massachusetts, and Bennington and Marlboro Colleges in Vermont. These visits brought home the fact that students do have choices in the sorts of curriculum they would like to form the core of their academic experience in college.
The core of college is [...]
Even in the economic downturn, many of the top colleges are still inundated with applications. Some colleges, like Williams, have experienced a decline in applications. Still, the desks of admissions officers are piled high with file folders containing the applications of qualified candidates–many, many more than they can ever accept.
I wrote a very [...]
An article in the Tufts Daily indicates that the university has accepted quite a few more students from its Early Decision pool than last year: 12% more.
It could be, as the Dean of Undergraduate Admissions says in the article, that the pool of ED applicants at Tufts was just outstanding this year. Or [...]
This past summer I had the opportunity to visit Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts. I didn’t really know what to expect. I knew of its strong reputation of helping kids who didn’t do so well in high school to get back on their feet, and I knew they have a strong program for [...]
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