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Some of the most elite US schools have grown concerned that not using tests made it harder to identify talented students from less privileged...
Declining numbers of applications have fueled concerns among alumni and donors that the school’s reputation is being tarnished.
Chuck Lorre, who dropped out of SUNY-Potsdam and carried student debt for 15 years, said, “The lack of finances is something I understand extremely...
Jeremiah Quinlan says test scores can be useful “when used together with other elements in an application, especially a high school transcript.”
The hedge fund leader wonders if elite schools will stay "lost in the wilderness of microaggressions and a DEI agenda that seems to have no real end...
Claudine Gay’s abrupt downfall, the second departure in recent weeks of an Ivy League president, underscores the furor on campus following the Oct....
More alumni and big donors are closing their checkbooks and refusing to make fundraising calls on behalf of the elite school.
The drop comes after incidents of antisemitism on campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.
“This is as difficult a moment for elite higher education as any moment since the Vietnam War,” said Larry Summers. “Perhaps more difficult.”
The bipartisan group sent a letter to the governing boards of Harvard, Penn, and MIT.
Harvard is the richest university in the U.S. with a $51 billion endowment, the highest credit rating, and a fundraising operation that brings in $1...
Ackman has called for Harvard to discipline protesters who violate rules because he said the lack of punishment further emboldens them to take “more...
“I have lost confidence that you and the university will do what is required,” wrote the hedge fund manager and Harvard alum.
Antisemitic incidents have soared since the war began, and the conflict has bitterly divided dozens of campuses, including Harvard, Stanford and the...
They cited “threatening” demonstrations by pro-Palestinian students and said Jewish students have locked themselves in dorm for fear of their own...
Donors and alumni at some colleges have been pulling support over the institutions’ response to the Hamas attack on Israel, which killed at least...