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A Counselor Who Looks Like You
Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education comments on colleges that unofficially offer race-specific counseling to students through multicultural centers.
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Letters of Recommendation: An Unfair Part of College Admissions
With some exceptions, selective colleges consider five main parts of an application: transcripts, test scores, personal essays, extracurricular activities and letters of recommendation. Here is a contrarian viewpoint on those letters from the associate vice president for enrollment management and marketing at DePaul University in Chicago. The nation’s largest Catholic university, DePaul does not require SAT or ACT scores or teacher recommendations. It does ask applicants to have their school counselors complete a recommendation form.
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Video: Author Dr. Mary Frances Berry
Mary Frances Berry of the School of Arts & Sciences talks about her work in civil rights and her latest book, Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy.
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Neuroscience Has an Important (But Complicated) Place in the Courtroom
Ruben Gur of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about violence and brain science.
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Audio: Historically Black Colleges and Universities Struggle With New Challenges, Old Inequities
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education talks about the financial troubles and expectations of historically black colleges and universities.
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Theories Abound to Explain College Board’s Abrupt Ban on Certain SAT Takers
The College Board announced on Monday that it would bar all nonstudents from taking the new SAT this Saturday. That irked test-prep tutors, hundreds if not thousands of whom had registered for the examination, eager to see how it had or had not changed. In their field, firsthand experience with standardized tests is gold. The College Board has long allowed people who aren’t high-school students to take the SAT. So many registrants were surprised to learn that they couldn’t do so until the next administration of the exam, in May.
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Video: Lawmakers Take Closer Look at Potential Crowdfunding Scams
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School talks about the legitimacy of crowdfunding.
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Kylie Jenner’s Lip Kits, Social Status and the Economic of Scarcity
Z. John Zhang of the Wharton School is quoted about what it means for consumers to purchase items not for functionality but for desirability.
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Last Nonacademic President? Not a Chance
Almost as soon as the news surfaced that Simon Newman was quitting as president of Mount St. Mary's University, faculty members at that institution and elsewhere started to celebrate. On social media, they said they hoped to see fewer presidents like Newman -- a business executive and consultant, not an academic -- leading colleges. One comment on Twitter: "Dreaming: All corporate-style #highered leaders resigned." Newman struck many faculty members as the ultimate example of why they fear presidential candidates who are not academics.
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College Presidents With Business-World Ties
The president of Mount St. Mary’s University wanted to improve the school’s vital national rankings by pushing out struggling freshmen before they flunked out and hurt its federal retention rate. “Put a Glock to their heads,” the president, a former private equity manager, said according to the campus newspaper. On Monday he resigned after outrage by academics who felt his cold, business-like approach was at odds with the school’s academic mission. Some say that as costs and student debt soar, the trend of hiring business people for academic leadership is beneficial for schools.