Francie Diep is a senior reporter covering money in higher education. She joined The Chronicle in 2019. Previously, she spent a decade covering health and science, including funding for academic labs, for publications including Pacific Standard, Popular Science, Scientific American, and The New York Times. She received her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Los Angeles and her master’s in journalism from New York University. Email her at francie.diep@chronicle.com.
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Tiers and Fears
The ranker organized the schools in tiers this year, seemingly because too many of them declined to provide essential data.
Prestige Hounds
Prashant Sehgal is a moderator for three online college-admissions forums totaling more than 1.1 million users. Here’s what he’s learned about what college hopefuls are like these days.
Trying Something Different
Last year, Money magazine switched from a college ranking to a rating system with colleges divided into just a handful of tiers. Rankings critics liked the change, but did rankings users?
Held Accountable
On the eve of the Committee on Education and the Workforce’s latest round of university president-grilling, Rutgers’ president finds himself under fire from multiple directions.
Changes Coming
A proposed revision, to go into effect in 2025, will label every college with its access and student outcomes, among other changes.
College Admissions
The university makes similar arguments as its peers about how standardized-test requirements help disadvantaged applicants.
Scholarship and Research
An email from the University of California at San Diego’s vice chancellor for research alerted the campus to the situation on Tuesday. The scientist says he got no warning before that day.
More Than a 'Fever Dream'
The faculty vote at Amherst College is a sign of both fresh interest and historically slow growth in the field.
Warm Words
Good press for a few thousand dollars — what’s wrong with that?
Admissions Testing Returns
The flagship’s decision comes in the context of a substantial automatic-enrollment program for top-ranked students across the state.