Day: September 14, 2009

Ranking Colleges By ”Economic Diversity”

In an effort to show which colleges are reaching out to low-income students, U.S. News & World Report has published “economic diversity” rankings of American colleges and universities. That sounds ambitious, but the rankings are based solely on the percentage of students at each institution who receive federal Pell grants, which mostly go to applicants […]

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Lost Chances

Check out Mariah Blake’s Washington Monthly piece “Pie in the Sky” for the unfortunate story of Ave Maria University.

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