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The Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Stress, and Sales?
A new survey reveals concerns that growing enrollment pressures will “heighten a ‘sales’ approach to recruitment.”
Temple U. Drops Testing Requirement
Applicants who do not submit ACT or SAT scores will answer written questions designed to assess their “noncognitive” attributes.
3 Questions for College Counseling’s Future
The roles of training, technology, and collaboration were key topics of discussion at a conference convened by the White House and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
‘Money’ Reaches for Objectivity in College Rankings
The magazine set out to base its list on objective data but admits that it’s “tough to boil down something as complicated as a college education.” Indeed so.
Does Your Admissions Office Have ‘Cultural Intelligence’?
Class and culture shape applicants’ expectations of college, with important implications for recruitment, two experts say.
5 ‘Dirty Words’ Admissions Offices Should Embrace
Colleges must think more like businesses and talk like them, too, one enrollment expert says.
How Colleges Can Help Students Navigate Their Financial Lives
It’s not clear how effective financial-literacy programs are at reducing borrowing or preventing defaults. But there are other reasons for colleges to help students manage their money, a guest blogger writes.
What’s Missing From the Merit-Aid Debate
Critics often see merit-based and need-based aid as two possible ways a college might spend its aid money. One enrollment official sees the two types as symbiotic.
Measuring Colleges’ Access and Diversity Efforts
Before figuring out whether institutions are doing a good job, goals and terms must be defined, a researcher writes in a guest post.
How One University Helps Student-Aid Recipients Make Good Choices
Duke University’s financial-aid director shares some of her counseling staff’s strategies.