Admissions

Hackers Broke Into Admissions Databases at 3 Colleges — and Then Offered to Sell Applicants Their Files

By Eric Hoover

 

Some prospective students at Grinnell and Hamilton received emails promising “absolutely unfiltered” information about their applications. For a hefty fee.

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A Tech Whiz Is Conquering College Admissions. It Takes Charm, Innovation, and Dancing Sharks.

By Eric Hoover

 

To know Alexander Clark, the chief executive behind a growing admissions-tech company, is to know the realm of data-driven strategists and back-office staff members who turn the wheels of the modern admissions process.

Teaching

A Professor Has Long Used a Racial Slur in Class to Teach Free-Speech Law. No More, He Says.

By Tom Bartlett

 

Geoffrey Stone, a legal scholar at the University of Chicago, had told a story, with an offensive epithet, to illustrate the “fighting words” doctrine. But students have convinced him the word isn’t worth “the distraction and the harm it causes.”

 

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Campus Scene

Ole Miss Chancellor Responds as Support Grows for Relocation of Confederate Monument

By Zipporah Osei

 

Larry Sparks said the university would weigh the concerns of students after the student government voted unanimously to have the statue moved from the center of campus.

Students

How UPenn Cut Counseling Wait Times in Half Without Hiring More Counselors

By Terry Nguyen

 

In the span of three months, the University of Pennsylvania created a new framework for scheduling appointments.

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The Ph.D. Identity Crisis

By Kathryn R. Wedemeyer-Strombel

 

Just as you near or cross the doctoral finish line, it hits: the “Who am I? What now?” conundrum.

 

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