At least 1,835 U.S. colleges have implemented test-free or test-optional admissions in the hopes of developing a more diverse pool of applicants, although student access to high school AP or IB courses will remain a factor in their acceptance.
The pipeline of traditional-age students will tighten further midway through this decade because of the drop in births during the Great Recession of 2008, forcing college leaders to compete more aggressively for fewer students.
In February of 2020, DePaul University opened a pantry out of a storage closet on the third floor of its Lincoln Park campus. Primarily launched to combat food insecurity, it provided a safe space for students to get assistance in one location and an alternative to the many generous departments across campus that had their […]
President Robert Robbins said leaders have begun the work to retain independent external experts in security and threat assessments to begin a comprehensive review of all aspects of campus safety, violence prevention and public safety response.
The vote comes after Faculty Senate leaders sent a letter to the Board of Trustees last week, demanding it stop interfering with the academic management of the university.
Did the $77 billion given by Congress to institutions of higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a large portion earmarked for students, really make a difference? Emergency funds funneled by colleges and universities indeed were consequential as nearly 90% of recipients said they experienced less stress and were able to concentrate more clearly on […]
Day after day this semester, gun violence has gripped the city of Philadelphia in areas just outside Temple University's campus. The headlines speak for themselves: "8-year-old girl grazed in the head by stray bullet from ambush shooting near Temple University" "Man shot during gun battle in McDonald's parking lot near Temple's campus" "Senseless: Fatal shooting […]
Calling it a "natural progression of our efforts to improve the overall well-being" of its campus, the University of Michigan will be installing a ban on e-cigarettes and other similar vaping devices and products by the middle of November. Although U-M first adopted smoking bans in 1987 and further measures over the next two decades, […]
