A growing number of colleges offering direct admissions, a little-known practice that gives students a fast-track to college, bypassing essays, recommendation letters and sometimes even the application itself. The practice is gaining steam among colleges hoping to balance their enrollment.
Thanks to the rise of generative artificial intelligence, what one instructor considers a tool in another context could be considered a slippery slope into academic dishonesty.
Hampshire College in Amherst announced cuts to staff benefits just months after the school’s leaders said it had recovered from enrollment and financial problems.
