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We Still Suck at Getting Poor Kids Into College
Hamilton Nolan · 04/20/16 09:15AMBlack Colleges Pay More to Borrow Money, For No Good Reason
Hamilton Nolan · 04/11/16 05:00PMCollege Kids Not So Into the Free Press. Whatever
Hamilton Nolan · 04/05/16 11:00AMThe SAT Has Been Hacked
J.K. Trotter · 03/28/16 05:19PMThe SAT, the standardized test taken by high school seniors to burnish their college applications, was administered nearly 1.7 million times last year. The test’s popularity within college admissions is based, in part, on the perception of fairness: As any recent test-taker is well aware, it is extremely difficult to cheat the SAT. According to a deeply reported investigative series by Reuters, however, a large number of SAT test-takers in Asia have benefitted from an illicit advantage when taking the exam:
Class War: Yale Edition
Hamilton Nolan · 03/25/16 09:13AMDo Not Get a Degree From an Online For-Profit College
Hamilton Nolan · 03/24/16 11:00AMWord "Trump" Written in Chalk Terrifies, Harms Emory Students
Sam Biddle · 03/22/16 04:40PMIs This American Bro Going to North Korean Prison Because He Tried to Impress a Glorified Frat?
Sam Biddle · 03/21/16 02:07PMUniversity of Virginia undergrad Otto Warmbier has been sentenced to fifteen years in a North Korean labor camp after copping to an attempted heist of a DPRK propaganda poster. If this sounds like the kind of thing a college kid would try in order to look cool back at UVA, that’s because he says it was.
Is It Really Too Expensive to Pay Adjunct Professors a Decent Wage? (No)
Hamilton Nolan · 03/17/16 09:20AMBoston University Does Not Want to Hear Anything From Union Members
Hamilton Nolan · 03/16/16 12:12PMJust Some Good Student Demands
Hamilton Nolan · 03/10/16 04:53PMMost College Presidents Think Campus Race Relations Are Fine
Hamilton Nolan · 03/09/16 01:57PMThe Federal Government Did Not Spend $412K to Study Gender and Glaciers
Andy Cush · 03/08/16 09:45AMHere is a story that is perfectly calibrated to rile up the staffers of right-leaning publications. It has federal overspending to the tune of six figures on seemingly trivial causes. It has concern for the environment and climate change. Most importantly, it’s got a big ol’ dollop of campus feminism, holding it all together. It’s too bad it isn’t really true.