In the past several years, an idea has taken hold among many, many people in and even outside of higher education: The prediction that disruption for our industry is just around the corner. The idea has been a hot one in business for a while, as you know if you read Harvard Business Review. Clayton Christensen […]
As I continued to think about the Claremont McKenna “scandal” and the attention it has received (including, of course, from me), some things occurred to me, not the least of which is my gut instinct that there’s no way this was pulled off by one person acting alone. Maybe more about that later. But if you’re interested, […]
A quick post…There’s been a lot of discussion about the recent revelation that Claremont McKenna College reported incorrect SAT data. Inquiring minds want to know. I used the data from the Claremont Portside article, which they re-constructed from paper reports (nice work, guys). But the data aren’t exactly accessible. I rolled it into a Tableau Software […]
As I did a presentation this morning for the President’s Council (the VP’s, Deans, and other important faculty and administrators at DePaul) on implementation progress of our test-optional pilot program, several things occurred to me: The whole test-optional discussion nationwide is really less about statistical r-squareds than it is about combating information cascades. But at the same time, […]
If you’re coming here, you’ve probably already heard that Claremont McKenna College has suffered a bit of a scandal: Dean Richard Vos has resigned after apparently admitting that he reported inflated SAT averages for the incoming freshman class for one or more years. This is not unprecedented, of course. In the interest of disclosure, I […]
I’ve written before about those who have criticized DePaul’s decision to go test-optional in freshman admissions. Much of the criticism is from people who believe that we’re doing this is to artificially increase the freshman average ACT scores we report. So I did some work to see how plausible that approach might be. And from […]
Been meaning to write about this for a while. Tempus fugit. With the launch of Tableau 7, now seems to be a good time. While we were doing research on our decision to become the nation’s largest private, not-for-profit university that is test-optional in freshman admission, I was doing some work studying patterns in ACT […]
A recent article in Bloomberg suggests test-optional colleges and universities are talking out of both sides of their mouths because we buy the names of students who take the SAT or ACT. Inflammatory and illogical posts like this are good to drive traffic to your site, but really, doesn’t some editor owe the reading public […]
We’re at that time of the year again, when Early Decision and [insert name of application type] admissions, denials, and defers start rolling in. And with the dawn of the new calendar year comes the resultant and predictable questions: How could they turn my kid down, with her GPA and her test scores? What does it […]
I’m going to break a rule of mine. I’m going to feed a troll. There’s this guy out there, Douglas Groene. He calls himself the Pencil Nerd, as if he’s never really looked up the definition of nerd. Or perhaps he has, and thinks that wishing can change the definition of words. Or perhaps more […]
