NEWS
Application Inflation: When Is Enough Enough?
By ERIC HOOVER, The New York Times, November 19, 2010
This article is the first of a collaboration between The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education, a daily news source for professors and administrators. Eric Hoover is a senior writer for The Chronicle covering admissions.
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2-star, USNA professor clash on diversity
By Sam Fellman , NavyTimes.com, November 19, 2010
A Naval Academy alumni event grew contentious Tuesday when a two-star admiral clashed with an academy professor on issues of diversity and admissions standards.
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By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Education.com, November 19, 2010
With some regularity, the mainstream press seems to love to scare would-be college students and parents with stories about how one may be more likely to be hit by lightning than win admission to an Ivy university or a prominent flagship. True?
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�Application Inflation� Has Many Causes�and Consequences
By Eric Hoover, The Chronicle of Higher Eduction.com, November 19, 2010
After taking over as Yale University�s dean of undergraduate admissions five years ago, Jeffrey Brenzel studied a lot of institutional data. He learned that Yale, which enrolls 1,300 freshmen annually, was sending about 120,000 viewbooks each year to high-school students who had inquired about the university, or whose names the admissions office had purchased from testing companies and other sources.
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Arizona Bans Affirmative Action Inside Higher Education
By Scott Jaschik
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/11/03/arizona
Arizona voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 107 to ban the consideration of race, ethnicity or gender by units of state government, including public colleges and universities. With 2,075 of 2,239 precincts reporting as of early Wednesday morning, unofficial results from the state had the measure passing with just under 60 percent support.
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For Georgetown dean, Common Application is part of a larger admissions problem
By Daniel de Vise, Washington Post Staff Writer, October 3, 2010
Gone are the days when students aspiring to America's best colleges agonized over a stack of distinct but largely duplicative forms. This is the age of the Common App, an innovation that saves students time and has the happy side effect of swelling applicant pools, giving schools the illusion of rising selectivity without the reality of improved academic offerings. Charlie Deacon, gatekeeper at Georgetown University for the past 38 years, is determined to resist this trend by continuing to fill the freshman class with students of sufficient dedication to slog through a six-page, two-part application form that is accepted nowhere else.
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