Jeffrey J. Selingo
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Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Jeffrey:
How to Stanch Enrollment Loss
It’s time to stop pretending the problem will fix itself. → Read More
How Should We Classify Colleges?
It’s time to do away with obsolete categories like “R1.” → Read More
Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few students they educate
Their minuscule admissions rates are a sign of failure, not success. → Read More
Covid-19 will make college admissions even easier for the elite
Admissions officers will be relying on high schools they know best. → Read More
Plexiglass Won’t Save Us
It’s a mistake to prioritize opening up in the fall over improving online education. → Read More
Plexiglass Won’t Save Us
Colleges have frittered the summer away on audacious and absurd reopening plans. It’s time to embrace remote learning instead. → Read More
Let's return sanity to college admissions. Coronavirus pandemic gives us an opportunity.
The pandemic is grievous, but its effects on college admissions could benefit high school students far into the future. → Read More
Making the grade still matters — at least in college admissions
While grades ultimately don’t matter in getting a job, they are very important in relation to another one of life’s selection processes: college admissions. → Read More
Can tech and the humanities exist side by side? Can they afford not to?
The two sides of America's education divide — tech and the humanities — are coming together in a unique partnership to make students more employable. → Read More
For U.S. colleges, playing the great expectations game comes at a cost
Americans expect a great deal from their colleges and universities. Few other institutions, if any, in our society have so many aspirational and disparate missions. → Read More
Public university governing boards oversee multibillion-dollar operations. They should start acting like it.
While the governing boards of public universities have long provided political plums that governors and senior legislators love to hand out, most state residents probably don’t know the oversight boards exist until there's a problem. → Read More
Self-Directed Learning and Augmented Reality: How to Teach Gen Z
A learning innovator shares a few approaches for engaging today’s students. → Read More
It’s college application season — and it’s not just students looking for the right fit
In general, college admission is not really about the applicant. It’s about the institution, its mission and its priorities. → Read More
The new job for life: Learning
The traditional view about the life span of higher education is slowly beginning to change. One reason is that college graduates are realizing that the one-and-done approach to education after high school is no longer suitable for a workplace in which the skills to keep up in any job are churning at a faster rate. → Read More
MBA enrollment is down again. What’s the future of the degree?
It’s almost impossible to drive down the interstate, walk through an airport, or surf the web without seeing ads for an MBA degree. There’s good reason: At many colleges and universities, the traditional graduate business degree has fallen on hard times. → Read More
How the Great Recession changed higher education forever
The immediate impact of the Great Recession eventually faded on college campuses, but the scars of the financial crisis remain with higher education in three significant ways. → Read More
Is there an alternative to college?
A fundamental transformation is underway in how we access education throughout our lives. In many ways, this behavior in education mimics that of the broader economy where consumers are increasingly seeking alternatives to legacy businesses. → Read More
States’ decision to reduce support for higher education comes at a cost
As we enter the third decade of the new millennium, rather than use higher education as a balance wheel in the state budget, lawmakers working with college officials need to develop a new model of public higher education. → Read More
College students say they want a degree for a job. Are they getting what they want?
A poll found that two-thirds of 14- to 23-year-old students want a degree to provide financial security. Colleges have been slow to react to this shift in the mind-set. → Read More
Have fun at college, freshmen, but read this first
Three tips to make your first year of college more successful. → Read More