Admissions offices are slowly integrating generative AI into their tool boxes to manage ballooning application pools while also easing staff burnout and other workload issues.
David A. Thomas will leave Morehouse College having increased applications from high-achieving students and raised more funds than any of the school's previous leaders. In other moves, Berklee College of Music has picked its next president.
Colleges and universities creating new admissions standards that support socioeconomic diversity could introduce an "element of randomness," a report by Acuity Insights suggests.
The rollout of the updated Free Application for Federal Student Aid meant schools received students' financial information months later than expected—and some students are still trying to determine their college costs weeks before the fall semester is set to begin.
Higher education institutions that can access their feelings don't just navigate the challenges of the modern landscape, they master them, ensuring their place at the forefront of an ever-evolving market.
Ramon Montiel-García, a newly minted high school graduate from Denver, was accepted to his first-choice school, Wheaton College in Massachusetts. However, with a sticker price of nearly $80,000 per year, he needed financial aid to bring the cost down.