1/ The College Board is out this morning with a report on 51 public and private colleges that were test optional for fall of ’21 and impact on admissions. Quick 🧵 on some of the interesting findings. research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ARC-… 2/ Not surprising apps were up across all segments of higher ed, but most at highly selective privates (admit rates <25%), yet they admitted fewer students and their enrollment basically flat. One note: year before (Year 1 Covid) those schools put out a lot of offers.

1/ THREAD on new paper on post-pandemic job market co-authored w/@mattsigelman of @Burning_Glass. It has ramifications for #highered. We found when job postings started to fall off last spring, those that required bachelor's declined more than jobs for high-school graduates. 2/ Entry-level jobs for bachelor's holders dropped the most. Colleges should ready their students for job market that will be stuck in neutral for several years and a reshaped workforce later on. If not, they put at risk how this cohort of students come to view their alma mater.

THREAD: Yesterday, in Louisville, something happened that could have a profound impact on #highered in the coming years but likely won’t get much more coverage than this in @WSJ and similar articles in @chronicle @insidehighered.
wsj.com/articles/colle… @WSJ @chronicle @insidehighered 2/ Delegates at annual meeting of admissions officers and high school counselors voted to remove significant sections of its ethics code to resolve a two-year antitrust investigation by @TheJusticeDept. The code had some teeth and the provisions protected students. Not anymore.

1/The talk of an impending recession this past week has me wondering about the impact on #highered. Traditionally, recessions have been glass half-full/half empty events for colleges. Enrollment went up at institutions serving working adults; but state $ and parental $ tightened The question is will this recession be different. For one, it's not like the last 10 years of this "economic expansion" has been terrific for most of #highered. It has for the "haves" but not the "have nots."

1/Spent #CollegeSigningDay today at rural Pa. HS. This is first year it had an @AdvisingCorps adviser. Excitement about what was “next” was palpable among seniors, something they said was missing in past when counselors focused solely on social/emotional. chronicle.com/article/Why-20… 2/This is a school where the median household income is $31K. Average SAT score for those who actually take it is 935. And only about 50% of students have historically gone on to post-secondary education. In other words, not much of a college-going culture.

1/When @johnshopkins said it would go need-blind permanently after the $1.8B Bloomberg gift, @JonBoeckenstedt noted they already had the money to do that from their surplus. That figure piqued my curiosity. 2/So I spent the last few weeks trying to answer this question: What are the annual surpluses of the top 25 national universities? If I didn’t stop looking, you’d never see me again. Turns out there is no single answer.