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Colleges and universities—and the testing companies, enrollment-management firms and other participants in the admissions-industrial complex—collectively spend billions of dollars trying to get as many of the…

The merger—a term the two combining institutions avoided, preferring “consolidation” or “federation”—seemed to make all the sense in the world. The two entities sat side by…

There are few better places to get a bead on what college and university leaders are thinking and feeling than at the annual meeting of the…

I often feel like the skunk at a garden party. That’s not uncommon for journalists: Our job frequently requires us to ask hard questions and to…