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Does Volunteer Work Matter for College Admissions?

Great College Advice

Families and students often ask us, “does volunteer work matter for college admissions?” Does volunteer work matter for college admissions? College admissions officers like both of these things. How many volunteer hours do you need for college admission? Or are colleges looking for something else?

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Pushing to No Longer Keep Meredith College a ‘Best-Kept Secret’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jo Allen, the retiring president of Meredith College, enjoys the administrative part of higher ed. She enjoys being able to see how budgets function, how admissions and financial aid operate, and how campus security is run. From 2012 to 2018, Meredith also carried out its largest fundraising campaign yet, raising more than $90 million.

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How open admissions is dismantling educational barriers for art students

University Business

Students and administrators alike are asking the same questions: how can students best prepare for the future? As the president of an arts and design university, one of the ways we’ve found to close this gap is through an open admissions policy. Why open admissions works. The educational and career landscape is shifting fast.

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Is this the first college closing announced in 2025?

University Business

million fundraising effort provided by over one thousand donations saved the school from closing last spring. The pandemic occurs, steepening downward trending enrollment and shortening administrators window to adjust operational strategy. A record $1.5 Lower enrollment breeds lower tuition revenue.

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Most admissions officers say college rankings have ‘lost their luster’

University Business

It’s more of the latter emotion for one sector of higher ed—admissions officers, according to a survey by educational services provider Kaplan. That’s a sharp increase from the 56% of admissions officers who said the same in Kaplan’s 2023 survey. On the heels of the release of U.S. This year, U.S.

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Elite University Presidents: Most Hated Men (and Women) on Campus

Higher Education Inquirer

The administration's agenda is often dictated by the whims of major donors, whose influence can shape everything from university policy to the hiring and firing of professors. Harvards massive endowment reportedly the largest of any university in the worldhas been a focal point of controversy.

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After “exhausting all avenues” to avoid going under, Notre Dame College closes

University Business

Administrators from Notre Dame College in Ohio have announced that the century-old Roman Catholic school in Ohio will be closing its doors at the end of the semester. Nine schools have guaranteed admissions for NDC’s remaining students with more than 60 credits completed. The university was 126 years old.