The Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted last week’s Center for Enrollment, Research, Policy & Practice (CERPP) conference titled, “Attributes That Matter: Beyond the Usual in College Admission and Success” in two articles by Eric Hoover:
- ‘How We Separate Merit From Privilege’
At a conference hosted by the University of Southern California’s Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice last week, Charles E. Lovelace Jr. uttered the most memorable quote. The next great challenge in college admissions, he said, is “how we separate merit from privilege.”
> Read the article. - Scholarship Providers Lead Way in Measuring Character, ‘Moxie’
There are no scales for weighing character, no calculators for computing grit. One cannot affix a decimal point to leadership skills. Nonetheless, thousands of college students who receive private scholarships each year are rewarded for such qualities.
> Read the article.
> Learn more about the conference.
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