Materials Related to Enrollment Management

• A recent editorial in the Columbus (OH) Dispatch notes that many "CollegeStudents’ Goals Often Don’t Fit Their Abilities." The author is Jack P. Calareso, President of Ohio Dominican University.
• A recently released study on California community colleges distinguishes removing barriers to access from removing barriers to completion. The report is available as a PDF file: Rules of the Game: How State Policy Creates Barriers to Degree Completion and Impedes Student Success in the California Community Colleges
• UC-Riverside Is Preferred Campus for Many Minority Students. (AP News Wire)
  The University of California at Riverside, even though it has among the lowest admissions standards of any campus in the system, is the preferred undergraduate destination for many black and Latino students, even those who might be admitted on other campuses, which have a tough time attracting minority students, the Los Angeles Times reports. One reason is outreach to minority applicants. Another is race-based programs to help students once they enroll. As a result, Riverside has one of the most diverse student bodies of any research university, despite the state’s decade-old ban on affirmative-action preferences. [link]
• "Changing the Measure of Success" (Inside Higher Ed)
  What counts as "success" in schools whose mission is to provide access?[link]
• Article on limited enrollment majors at University of Wisconsin.
• Undergraduate research ( USA Today).