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College Revives Standardized Test Requirement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The college adopted a test-optional policy for applicants to the Classes of 2025, 2026, and 2027 and a test-recommended policy for applicants to the Class of 2028 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Lee Coffin, the college’s vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid.

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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The most immediately impacted forms of internationalization were those involv ing student mobility , according to Dr. Maria Claudia Soler, senior Dr. Maria Claudia Soler, senior research analyst at ACE research analyst at ACE and lead author of the report. He cited issues with democracy in the U.S.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

The class entering college in 2027 was in sixth grade in Fall 2021 and has since failed to make up any of the ground they lost. Most of the 13-year-old cohort tested by NAEP in Fall 2022 will enter high school in Fall 2023 and begin entering college in Fall 2027. Math achievement will not be our only enrollment concern in 2027.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

The class entering college in 2027 was in sixth grade in Fall 2021 and has since failed to make up any of the ground they lost. Most of the 13-year-old cohort tested by NAEP in Fall 2022 will enter high school in Fall 2023 and begin entering college in Fall 2027. Math achievement will not be our only enrollment concern in 2027.

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CPW 2023

CAPD

Welcome to the prospective class of 2027! Research and summer opportunities : research is an integral part of the MIT experience, and we encourage students to seek our UROPs to explore majors and build experience. Prospective Students Join Ariel Ackermann for a workshop that will help you imagine your future at MIT!

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Does That Filipino Harvard joke in the New Yorker Sound the Death Knell for Affirmative Action?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Harvard’s class of 2027 will be told if it’s thumbs up or down on March 30. Jose is said to be the son of a farmworker killed by a tractor, who now supports his family of 14 while working as a cancer researcher AND playing football as a 132-pound defensive lineman (incredible considering his slight build). The anxiety level is rising.

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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

There is that conjectural concern that as universities become more research-oriented, or move “up” in Carnegie classification, seeking R-2 (high research activity) or R-1 (very high research activity) status, they become less focused on students, more exclusive and less responsive to their communities’ needs.

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