What Colleges Could Do About College Admission, Part 3

Most of the changes being advocated regarding college admission focus on students, families, schools, and organizations changing their ways. "Relax!" say colleges. "Do your best and don't worry about the results." Students are enjoined to be "nicer" and more sincere in their approach to other, their activities, and their communities. Impossible and contradictory advice gets …

Student Engagement, Not Alumni Giving, Is a Quality Indicator

All colleges should participate in the National Survey of Student Engagement. Many prominent campuses don't.

The Tangled Web of College Access

To improve it, we need to think of the college admission process as a cultural system.

Putting the College Process in Its Place

Crabby wants to put the college process in its place... Proposition: The college admission/application process has become far too ponderous and complex. It has ceased to be a complementary part of secondary school life and instead become central, overwhelming the academics and extracurriculars it is supposed to observe and highlight. Colleges and high schools need …

It’s Not About College, It’s About “College”

Crabby wonders if we sometimes miss the mark... Many schools and college access programs consistently confuse the ideals of "college" with the physical realities of college. They make going to school a way to prepare for arriving at a physical location called a college, but not for dealing with the incorporeal (dare I say spiritual?) …