Researchers with Academic Search surveyed over 700 presidents on what skills they believe presidents must learn in today's climate. Date acumen and trust top the list.
In the week ahead, some colleges can begin building reduced-credit programs and maybe even expect more high school students to enroll right after graduation.
Liberal arts college leaders attending The Presidents Dinner in D.C. are tangled in a Catch-22 balancing First Amendment protections. But dialogue and learning to listen are seen as solutions.
Every Ivy League University, save Yale, ranked in the bottom 200 of FIRE's rankings. Plus, more universities claim a lack of diverse enrollment post-affirmative action.
Amherst College and Tufts University saw drops in the number of Black students after a Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action. At other schools, the picture is murkier.
As freshmen thumbed through dorm posters and shopped for school supplies at the University of Alabama's student center during the first week of school, other spaces in the building were noticeably empty.
MIT's dean of admissions and student financial services, Stu Schmill, said that 16% of enrolling undergraduate students in the Class of 2028 identify as Black, Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander. This percentage has decreased from 25% in recent years.
