It took hours of debate in front of their computers, but as their day-long virtual meeting in late May wound to a close, the University of California System regents were ready to vote. One by one, they unanimously greenlit one of the country’s biggest and most influential public higher education systems to largely drop SAT […]
Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education’s handling of federal coronavirus aid delayed college students from getting the funds, according to a new assessment from a government watchdog group. The department initially gave colleges wide latitude for...
Editor’s note: This story is part of a package examining how community colleges in Texas are innovating to address pressures facing two-year schools nationwide. We started this reporting before the pandemic, and as the crisis unfolded, we thought it was important to...
Dive Brief: More students will likely opt to attend college closer to home as a result of the pandemic, a shift that stands to hurt institutions that rely heavily on out-of-state enrollees, explains a new Moody’s Investors Service report. Meanwhile, states that...
California voters will have the chance to reinstate affirmative action in admissions to the state’s public colleges this November, a move experts say is all the more likely as protests over systemic racial injustices roil the U.S. Despite California being one of...
