BestColleges

MAY 24, 2024

Harrison has served as dean of Berkeley Haas since January 2019. That includes the launch of a dual master's degree program in business and climate solutions with the Rausser College of Natural Resources, as well as a sustainability certificate and a summer minor in sustainable business and policy.

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 19, 2024

The number of student veterans on campus has roughly doubled since 2019. BROWN’S CHANGING ADMISSIONS POLICIES Brown University announced in early March that it would once again require students applying for fall 2025 admission to submit either a SAT or ACT score. It is filled with trustees and faculty members.

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BestColleges

JULY 7, 2023

This time, the suit involves legacy admissions , the university's policy of favoring children of alumni. For the classes of 2014-2019, Harvard legacies were admitted at a rate of 33.6% , compared to 5.9% About 28% of Harvard's class of 2019 were legacies. Harvard is being sued … again. for non-legacies.

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Top Tier Admissions

OCTOBER 24, 2023

First, the overall reliance of standardized test scores has gone down as most colleges and universities chose to extend their pandemic-era testing policies. The push towards test-optional admissions policies also provided colleges and universities with a new tool to grow and, importantly, diversify their applicant pools.

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EAB

MARCH 9, 2023

More on faculty affairs Building an Anti-Burnout Workplace Culture in Academic Affairs: On-Demand Materials March 2, 2023 How Colleges are Tackling the Growing Childcare Crisis February 14, 2023 BIT/CARE Team Assessment January 23, 2023 Faculty and Staff Mental Health and Wellness Resources Website Audit November 11, 2021 10 tips to make your faculty (..)

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Top Tier Admissions

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

According to a 2019 state law, also authored by Ting and spurred by the Varsity Blues scandal, universities were required to provide annual reports on legacy or donor admissions. That law, however, expired in 2023. In response, several states have taken steps to ban or restrict legacy preferences in public higher education institutions.

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BestColleges

APRIL 3, 2023

In 2019, art professors averaged $83,220 a year (BLS) — not bad! As of 2019, biology majors made a median annual salary of $65,000 a year (BLS). English graduates made a median income of $51,000 in 2019 (BLS). Graduates can get high-paying careers as hospital administrators, policy analysts, and medical service managers.

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BestColleges

JULY 20, 2023

The brief from military leadership points out that in 2019, 36% of active-duty officers were ROTC-commissioned. What's more, ROTC has been the primary source of minority officers, the brief details, with 29% of Black and 32% of Hispanic officers earning commissions through ROTC in 2019.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Phil Hill : A big part of writing both the blog on the 2019-20 data and the 2020-21 data blog (on the need to focus on 12-month unduplicated enrollment rather than fall snapshot) was to point out how much we’ve needed this type of data. Here is an abridged summary of our conversation.

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Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This comes after months of public debate on the merits of testing, with some schools extending their “temporary” test-optional undergraduate admissions policy through the 2024 admissions cycle while others are actively reevaluating their stance for future years. The majority of schools remain test optional and will continue to be.

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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 13, 2023

increase over the 40,248 students who applied in the 2019-20 cycle. Pandemic-era test-optional policies account for the highly competitive 2021-22 admissions cycle. Princeton, by contrast, has not yet extended its policy past the 2022-23 admissions cycle.). Let’s dig into the data. Harvard’s Early Action program is nonbinding.

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Admissions Mom

JULY 19, 2024

Colleges & Universities 2021 Working List of Undocumented & DACA Policies for U.S. Colleges & Universities 2021 Working List of Undocumented & DACA Policies for U.S.

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BestColleges

APRIL 20, 2023

It's an economic engine that in 2019 inspired incoming Humboldt State University President Tom Jackson to wonder: Why didn't the institution have an academic program studying cannabis? The program is "foundationally ethnobotanical," Corva explained. Preparing Students for Array of Cannabis Careers Combined U.S.

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Ruffaloni

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the November blog indicated that Snapshot Data undercounted total enrollment by nearly 6 million students in 2019 (the last pre-pandemic year), I didn’t go too far into where these missing students were hidden. Snapshot Data are used by almost everyone in higher education to help understand trends and dynamics.

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BestColleges

JUNE 7, 2024

Only 30% of eligible community college students, 22% of eligible UC undergraduates, and 29% of eligible UC graduate students were enrolled in CalFresh in fall 2019. The report also found that housing status played a significant role in CalFresh eligibility.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JULY 9, 2023

This became especially true in 2020, given changes in test administration and colleges’ testing policies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If your child is applying to colleges this cycle, or in the next year or two, you may be wondering which colleges are adopting test-optional policies—a trend that is increasing nationwide.

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SSA Online College Prep

JULY 3, 2023

As more and more colleges adopt test-optional or test-flexible policies, students and parents are increasingly asking if SAT Ⓡ scores actually matter to colleges. By 2019, more than 1000 schools were test-optional, and by 2023 that number has grown to over 1900. But many top schools still require standardized tests.

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

2] Check Hispanic and Latino/a students were more likely to be first-generation college students than any other racial/ethnic group in 2019. [3] 3] Check 67% of Hispanic and Latino/a students attended a federally designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) in 2019-2020. [4] April 2019. Census Bureau. Excelencia in Education.

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HelloCollege

AUGUST 27, 2024

Bureau of Labor Statistics, STEM jobs are projected to grow by 8% from 2019 to 2029, compared to 3.7% Similarly, scientists with strong communication skills can more effectively convey their findings to a broader audience, influencing public policy and societal change. According to projections by the U.S. for non-STEM occupations.

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DC College Counseling

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Third, they concluded that the test-optional policy currently in place “is likely a barrier to Dartmouth identifying less-advantaged students who would succeed at Dartmouth.” Finally, they conclude that the test-optional policy has not increased the number of less-advantaged applicants in the admission pool. Following the U.S.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

million fewer tradit ional - aged (18 - 24) college students in 2022 from 2019. Research from the United States Department of Education shows 1.2

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Research the transfer credit policies of the colleges you are interested in to determine how the credits you have already taken, or future credit will apply towards your degree program. She joined Georgia Tech in 2019 and currently coordinates Tech’s Transfer Pathway Programs and leads admission staff in file review of transfer applicants.

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BestColleges

MARCH 6, 2024

Ting introduced a similar bill targeting legacy admissions in 2019 after the “Operation Varsity Blues” scandal that involved wealthy families paying to have their children recruited as fake athletes. Legacy admissions are based on privilege and wealth, and diminish the work non-legacy admits do to get into college.

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Excelsior Admissions Consulting

JUNE 15, 2021

Research Colleges’ Policies on Food Allergies It is important to research each college’s policy on food allergies as you make your college list. As part of your research, check each college’s policy on menus. Some students choose to commute to a college while living at home because of their food allergies.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 24, 2023

Colgate saw a remarkable 102% increase in applications from the 2019-20 to 2020-21 admissions cycles and seems to still be riding that wave.) Pandemic-era test-optional policies largely account for the more competitive recent admissions cycles.

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BestColleges

AUGUST 26, 2024

In 2019, Brown set a goal to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by next year and become climate neutral by 2040. She believes that people in climate policy and finance are starting to realize that a climate solution is the easiest to execute when it can be a direct replacement for a carbon-intensive alternative.

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One is public policy. In 2019 alone, Fink told BestColleges, states introduced more than 100 such bills. "It Fink summarizes these challenges as "exclusionary policies, exclusionary practices, and exclusionary mindsets or attitudes." Several states have passed legislation expanding dual enrollment programs.

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BestColleges

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The brief from military leadership points out that in 2019, 36% of active-duty officers were ROTC-commissioned. What's more, ROTC has been the primary source of minority officers, the brief details, with 29% of Black and 32% of Hispanic officers earning commissions through ROTC in 2019.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 17, 2023

This represents a slight decrease from Class of 2026 data, which showed an 8% increase over in-state applications from the Class of 2025 application cycle, itself a 23% surge over the prior year’s applications, inspired by “pandemic-year” test-blind policies and the court case that gave them the death knell.

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BestColleges

APRIL 17, 2023

Education leaders and policy makers need to act to meet the needs of our students and state." More than 20,000 students earned bachelor's degrees at community colleges in 2019, according to the American Association of Community Colleges. California Gov.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Test-optional policies brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic account for the highly competitive 2020-21 admissions cycle. Princeton announced its test-optional policy in the summer of 2020 and has since renewed the policy into the 2022-23 admissions cycle (for admission to the Class of 2027).

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The 2019 Campus Computing Project survey of chief information officers and senior campus officials found the following (4): %. Embracing big data in complex educational systems: The learning analytics imperative and the policy challenge. In reality, education lags behind all other sectors in adoption of analytics solutions (3).

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

. --> A survey of parenting students by Generation Hope found that 63% of respondents missed one or more classes due to a lack of childcare, and 59% were unaware of institutional policies regarding children in class. Schools can collect data with minimal effort and cost through admission forms or surveys during course registration.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

. --> A survey of parenting students by Generation Hope found that 63% of respondents missed one or more classes due to a lack of childcare, and 59% were unaware of institutional policies regarding children in class. Schools can collect data with minimal effort and cost through admission forms or surveys during course registration.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

According to a Ruffalo Noel Levitz analysis of the CASE VSE survey, “of the 667 institutions that reported in both 2019 and 2022, 81 percent are down on [alumni] donor count between these times.” Appealing to a graduate’s sense of obligation, sense of community or nostalgia will no longer be enough to engage them as donors.

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BestColleges

MARCH 20, 2024

Both private and public universities have policies favoring legacy students. Supreme Court has banned the traditional form of affirmative action, legislators want to end legacy admissions, and colleges themselves are rethinking their policies. The likelihood of legacy preferences increases with institutional selectivity.

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Admissions Village

APRIL 25, 2023

What can we say about test-optional admissions policies today? Just 4% of their member colleges in 2022-23 mandated admission test scores, down from 55% in 2019-20.” • In recent weeks, Columbia University, Vassar College, and all of the State Universities of New York (SUNYs) have announced that they will be permanently test-optional.

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