Despite Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action and state efforts to defund DEI, there are integral ways higher education can maintain its mission of cultivating a culture of diverse perspectives. "Don't be led by fear," advises Dr. David Acosta, chief diversity and inclusion officer of the AAMC.
Three recent programs and partnerships highlight the county's new efforts to boost rural students' awareness of higher education opportunities—especially by leveraging tech.
(Bloomberg)—Nearly 81,000 students applied to the school for the Fall 2022 first-year cohort, marking a 30% increase from 2019 before the pandemic upended college campuses. The surge in applications caused BU's student body to balloon as well. The school enrolled about 17,500 full-time undergraduates in the Fall of 2022, compared to 16,635 in 2019. That […]
Gupta now joins an elite class of just a few thousand other students accepted to Stanford this year. The school had a historically low acceptance rate of just 3.6% of incoming freshmen. The increase in college applications has put pressure on admissions departments. Colleges are now receiving record numbers of applications, and they have to be more […]
Columbia University announced Tuesday that it will no longer submit data to U.S. News and World Report for its rankings of undergraduate schools. "We remain concerned with the role that rankings have assumed in the undergraduate application process, both in the outsized influence they may play with prospective students, and in how they distill a […]
Keeping humans at the center of edtech is the top insight in the federal government's first stab at determining how colleges should teach with AI amid concerns about safety and bias.
With international student enrollment doubling or even tripling, schools' DSO offices are turning to batch system software to process student applications more quickly—and increase employee retention and morale.
If requested, the Common App will conceal basic information on race and ethnicity — a move that could help schools if the Supreme Court ends affirmative action.
Near Field Communication (NFC) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are two of the most valuable technologies for use on higher ed campuses. While they seem similar, they are not interchangeable, as each is best used to accomplish different, specific tasks. Which is the right technology for different applications on your campus? Download this white paper […]
The UC Board of Regents today voted to establish UC Berkeley's College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the campus's first new college in more than 50 years. The college will develop, implement and share high-quality, ethics-oriented and accessible curricula, educating a diverse student body in data science, computing and statistics. It will also […]
