In “Elite Colleges Explore Alternative to Common App” (The Chronicle, October 31), you describe how admissions officers at some of the most selective colleges are hoping to create a new online college ...

High school students seeking admission to institutions of higher learning have traditionally had to choose from a limited number of options for aptitude exams accepted on college applications. Tests ...

In case you missed it, check out Washington Monthly editor Paul Glastris on the Colbert Report from last week, talking about the magazine’s alternative ranking of colleges: Click here to read the ...

The students who had taken over her office were a conscious throwback to the activism of the 1960s, when Hampshire was conceived as an experiment in higher education. The students who had taken over ...

This week, leaders of the venture they are calling the University of Austin proclaimed that elite American higher education had “abandoned” true freedom of inquiry and that they were going to do ...

Seniors at Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles participate in a college information session with UC Irvine on Oct. 25. (Los Angeles Times) To the editor: Sacred are the high school college ...

The students who had taken over her office were a conscious throwback to the activism of the 1960s, when Hampshire was conceived as an experiment in higher education. As Enrollment Slips, Alternative ...