Careers without College

…career as a teenager, apprenticing for a major Swiss bank. Upon completion he performed his obligatory Swiss military service, which he enjoyed so much that he entered officer training school,…



How Affirmative Action Really Works

…Test because, as an admission officer told his mother, “We see a lot of your people around here.” Vijay’s mother complained to Boston Latin’s legendary headmaster, F. Washington Jarvis, and…


November 9, 1989: Another Stone Wall

…famous drag queen; Cleve Jones, a professional gay activist; and Dan Choi, a U.S. infantry officer committed to ending the current Armed Forces policy toward gays known as “Don’t Ask,…


Higher Education Notebook

…will serve “as an executive officer of North Carolina State and represent university-wide interests and priorities to various entities within in North Carolina.” Before working for Easley, Howell served as…


The Rot of the Prestigious Colleges

…While students generally have a single-digit chance of being accepted into a prestigious college, tagged students’ chances can be as high as 60 percent, a former Ivy League admissions officer




Keeping Secrets

…position that it was excused from complying with the Arizona Public Records Law because of FERPA.  Caught between sometimes conflicting roles—educator, landlord, substitute parent, police officer, intellectual property incubator, etc.—some…