Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

Harvard’s class of 2027 will be told if it’s thumbs up or down on March 30. The class based on Early Action admits is already 30 percent Asian American, could that number go even higher to indicate a loosening of a cap on Asian American admissions that may be borderline discriminatory? The anxiety level is rising. Magazine, that is.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Towson University recently announced the goal of increasing research activity and obtaining R-2 Carnegie status by 2027 (currently we are classified as M-1: master’s colleges and universities—larger programs).

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

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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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

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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Faculty Community College Mining Research 52

University Business

JANUARY 24, 2025

Since arriving in 2019, Wingenbach reversed course on the institution’s plans to seek a merger or acquisition and has significantly increased enrollment and its financial position, placing the institution to achieve financial balance by 2027.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

Recorded prior to the recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action in admissions, the two also speculate on potential impacts from that ruling and offer advice to university leaders on how to better support students of color already on campus, as well as those just beginning their college search. Transcript [music] 0:00:12.4

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