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☆ More Colleges Offering Admission to Students Who Never Applied
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Melissa Korn | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Montclair State University in New Jersey worked with the Common Application last year to offer spots to 3,000 prospects based on their GPAs. It sounds too good to be true: Get into college, with a guaranteed scholarship, without ever applying. This fall, tens of thousands of students will receive such offers from schools around the country. Direct admissions, as the approach is often called, allow colleges to send offers to students based just on their GPAs or a few other criteria, such as intended major or geographic location, without the hassle of essays, recommendation letters and months of uncertainty.
☆ Former Yale Soccer Coach Sentenced to Prison in College Admissions Cheating Case
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Melissa Korn | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Former Yale University women’s soccer coach Rudolph Meredith admitted to taking bribes in exchange for facilitating teens’ admission to Yale as soccer players. Former Yale University soccer coach Rudolph Meredith was sentenced in a Boston federal court to five months in prison for his involvement in the sprawling college-admissions cheating scandal that also ensnared executives and Hollywood stars, a harsher sentence than even the prosecutors had recommended. Mr. Meredith took $860,000 in bribes from corrupt college counselor William “Rick” Singer , and agreed to a $450,000 payment directly from at least one parent, in exchange for facilitating teens’ admission to Yale as soccer players.
☆ A New Sister Act: College Students Move Into a Convent
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Melissa Korn | Photographs Michelle Gustafson For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
ASTON, Pa.—A group of students at Neumann University here spent an evening last month painting pumpkins, making s’mores and dancing to a DJ’s playlist. Their neighbors—a bunch of sisters, and not the sorority kind—joined in the fun. Call it a match made in heaven: Neumann wanted to increase campus housing for students. The Catholic Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia had extra space in their convent.
☆ Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Race in College Admissions
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Jess Bravin | Melissa Korn | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The affirmative-action suits before the Supreme Court combine questions of race in American society and access to prestigious universities. WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court began hearing arguments Monday over whether colleges can consider race in admissions decisions, a practice the justices approved in 1978 and repeatedly reaffirmed but today’s more conservative majority agreed to review. The court first heard a case against the University of North Carolina, a state flagship, and later Monday will hear another involving a private Ivy League institution, Harvard College.
☆ Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Race in College Admissions
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Jess Bravin | Melissa Korn | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The affirmative action suits before the Supreme Court combine questions of race in American society and access to prestigious universities. WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday over whether colleges can consider race in admissions decisions, a practice the justices approved in 1978 and repeatedly reaffirmed but today’s more conservative majority agreed to review. The court has scheduled separate cases beginning at 10 a.m., one against the University of North Carolina, a state flagship, followed by another involving a private Ivy League institution, Harvard College. Both suits were filed by Students for Fair Admissions, a group founded by conservative activist Edward Blum , who has brought several cases to the Supreme Court seeking to end practices that take race into account.
☆ After Record Year, University-Endowment Returns Drop Into Negative Territory
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Juliet Chung | Melissa Korn | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Investment returns for university endowments have fallen back to earth after scoring their biggest gains in a generation the year before, reflecting a dramatically changed investment environment in which stocks, bonds and other assets have sold off sharply. The endowment of Washington University in St. Louis lost 10.6% in the fiscal year ended June 30 after notching a 65% gain the prior year, the school told The Wall Street Journal, shrinking its size to $13.3 billion. Other schools that have reported big swings in their multibillion-dollar endowments include Stanford University, which lost 4.2% after gaining 40.1% previously; Brown University, down 4.6% after posting a 51.5% increase; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, down 5.3% after rising 55.5%.
☆ Supreme Court to Revisit University Affirmative-Action Programs
  + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Jess Bravin | Melissa Korn | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The University of North Carolina has said that narrow consideration of race is necessary to achieving a diverse student body. WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday on whether race can play a role when administrators decide who is admitted to many of the nation’s colleges and universities. The court will hear two separate cases, expected to yield two related rulings by July, involving a state flagship, the University of North Carolina, and a private Ivy League institution, Harvard College. Both say having a diverse student body is central to their educational mission, and that narrow consideration of race is necessary to achieving it.
☆ Developer Who Pleaded Guilty in College Admissions Scandal Dies by Suicide
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Melissa Korn | Jennifer Levitz | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Real-estate developer Robert Flaxman was among dozens of parents charged in the Varsity Blues investigation in 2019. Robert Flaxman , a Southern California real-estate developer who pleaded guilty to a federal fraud conspiracy charge for cheating to get his daughter into college, has died. Mr. Flaxman, 66 years old, died Oct. 20 by suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner.
☆ Colleges Tap Outside Companies to Address Student Mental-Health Crisis
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Melissa Korn | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The University of Kentucky signed a $1 million annual contract with Talkspace to give students a convenient therapy option. College students are increasingly seeking help when they are overwhelmed by academic assignments, drifting toward depression or in the throes of suicidal thoughts, school officials say. Schools buckling under the heavy demand for mental-health services now are finding help of their own, via virtual-counseling companies.
☆ Colleges Skirt Disclosure Requirements on Bank Partnerships, Report Finds
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Melissa Korn | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau determined schools don’t publicize details about the money they make from the deals with banks. The U.S. Education Department has done little to police lucrative relationships between colleges and banks, allowing schools to sidestep disclosure requirements and potentially offer unnecessarily costly products to students, according to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report published Thursday. In its annual report to Congress on banking partnerships for institutions of higher education, the CFPB determined schools don’t publicize details about the money they make from the deals, and often promote accounts that aren’t in students’ best financial interest.
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