Education

Public research universities’ OK year on admissions

From Inside Higher Ed: “The picture that is emerging is not one that was predicted just a month or so ago. Survey after survey found that high numbers of freshmen — perhaps 20 percent or more — were planning to alter their previous plan for colleges, perhaps by going to a community college, and perhaps not going to college. Elizabeth Johnson, chairman of SimpsonScarborough, which produced two of those surveys, said she agreed (with some hope) that the picture has changed. … ‘Now, so many schools have announced they will open and the kids and families are indicating they are going to show up.’”
View the full article from Inside Higher Ed.