The pause in testing gave colleges a chance to study the issue more closely. They found that SAT scores were extremely effective at predicting whether students would succeed in college. The University of California convened a panel several years ago to study the issue at length and it reached the same conclusion. The standardized tests were […]
At least 14 nonprofit colleges announced they were closing last year. New York had the most institutions to close with three, followed by Wisconsin with two. Notre Dame College's closure marks the first in Ohio since then.
A pair of reports suggest that degree earners still hold a considerable advantage in the application pool and are guaranteed to fare better a decade removed from school.
A new report details the 2021 pay grades of private university leaders across the country — including three presidents in the Pittsburgh region. The Chronicle's report looked at 312 leaders at private colleges with expenditures of $100 million or more. Topping the list was Amy Gutmann, the former president of the University of Pennsylvania, who […]
Date & Time: Thursday, March 7 at 12 pm ET <br><br> In this podcast, a Tax Principal at CLA and the Associate Vice Chancellor in the Department of Facilities Management & Planning at the University of Denver discuss how the university's leaders are including clean energy in capital project decisions and utilizing the clean energy tax credits that are now available.
The president of the New School in Manhattan is about to lose an extraordinary perk: a five-story West Village townhouse that for decades has served as the university head's official residence. The school, which projected a $52 million budget shortfall for the 2024 fiscal year, is asking $20 million for the home as it seeks to stabilize its finances. […]
Nearly 57% fewer high school seniors have submitted a new FAFSA form compared to last year's numbers. Could delays and technological errors be to blame?
It's true that yearly increases in college tuition have long outstripped inflation, rising more than 200 percent since 1980. But the conversation around student loan debt has become seriously miscalibrated: Not only do small, expensive, elite universities command the conversation about tuition costs, but there's a misplaced focus on undergraduate degree programs. There are real problems with […]
After studying first-year Ivy-Plus students' admissions records and grades between 2017 and 2022, Harvard-based Opportunity Insights found that student's test scores are a far more significant predictor of collegiate success than their high school GPA.
