| By Eric Hoover A team-based approach to initial reviews of applications can often save time and may allow for better evaluations. |
| By Eric Hoover An admissions official at the University of Pennsylvania explains its new way to do holistic review and why other colleges are following suit. |
| Administration By Peter Schmidt College administrators whose task is making campuses inclusive say recent political trends have made their jobs both much more difficult and much more important. |
| Faculty By Tom Hesse A conservative website created a wider audience for a student’s recording of professors at Northern Arizona University. The ensuing discomfort was felt on all sides. |
| Students By Chris Quintana An analysis by two researchers at the Brookings Institution suggests that they are. But there are some obvious problems, they admit, in drawing such conclusions. |
| The Ticker A dozen lawmakers asked the Department of Education for an explanation of the decision last week to defer the controversial rule until July 1. |
| Commentary By Richard A. Shweder and Richard E. Nisbett Professors should expect administrators to exempt low-risk human-subject research from the scrutiny of institutional review boards. |
| Lingua Franca Ben Yagoda finds the British antecedent for a recently popular phrase. |
| The Two-Year Track By Rob Jenkins A new field manual on the community-college presidency should be required reading for administrators. |
| Vitae By Andrew Carlson and Matthew Filner A pervasive administrative lens increasingly seems to color almost everything we do as faculty members. |
