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The article discusses the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on higher education, with a focus on diverse viewpoints from 12 scholars and administrators. Topics include the potential of AI in revolutionize admissions, enhancing student services, and redefining educators' roles, while addressing challenges and opportunities in knowledge production.

Presents information on the debates about the elimination of the scholastic aptitude test (SAT) for entry into universities in the United States. Criticisms on the SAT; Study sponsored by the Association of American Universities on the creation of a database of state tests; Evidence of racial preference in college admission procedures in the country.

The article discusses how the Covid-19 pandemic will affect the future of admissions in U.S. colleges and universities. Topics include whether the changes in admission practices like conducting virtual tours to recruit students and the use of big data, the challenges faced by schools like declining revenue, tightening financial-aid budgets, and reduction of programs, as well as the comment of Georgetown University's Charles Deacon on the development.

Discusses the issues surrounding the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to permit the use of affirmative action in college admissions in 2003. Significance of the decision to universities; Reaction of several organizations to the decision; Decline in the enrollment of Michigan State University .

Focuses on Texas Governor George W. Bush and his mixed record on higher education in Texas. His support for the ten percent law, which allows the top ten percent of high school students to be admitted into state colleges; Civil rights debates about college education in Texas; Budget battles; Impact of his stance on higher education on his presidential campaign.

Focuses on the efforts of colleges outside Texas to recruit minority high school students from Texas. Background on the 1996 Hopwood vs. Texas decision which banned the use of affirmative action by Texas institutions; Financial aid as a persuasion tactic offered by recruiters; Attempts by counselors to dissuade minority students from attending out-of-state schools.

Reports on the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court rulings of affirmative action may prompt the implementation on race-conscious admissions at some colleges in the country. Effect of federal desegragation orders on colleges in Louisiana; Impact of Michigan rulings on campus diversity; Adoption of admissions criteria in public colleges.

Focuses on how the U.S. Supreme Court decision on use of affirmative action in admissions at the University of Michigan will affect public colleges around the country. Strategies adopted by some private colleges to prepare for the Michigan decision; Facts of the case; Reactions from scholars and lawyers.

Reports on the plan of Texas A&M University in College Station to extend the offer of guaranteed admission to a certain percentage of graduates from several high schools, as of January 2002. Objective of the plan; Implication of the plan on a federal court's ban on affirmative action at the state's colleges; Criticisms drawn by the plan.

Focuses on the proposal of Richard C. Atkinson, president of the University of California System, to drop the use of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) in the admission of college applicants. Criticism on the SAT; How academic leaders responded to Atkinson's proposal; Efforts of California to explore ways to increase minority enrollment in the state.

Reports the 1999 decision of Florida Governor Jeb Bush to stop using race as a factor in undergraduate and graduate admissions in the state's ten public universities. Introduction of a new admissions policy based on the class rank of high school students; Reactions of professors and students; Bush's reasons for eliminating affirmative actions in admissions decisions.

Presents news briefs on higher education in the U.S. as of January 28, 2005. Plan of the University of Colorado Systems to guarantee admission of high school graduates to its campuses; Agreement of members of the governing board of Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law to build a law school at its main campus in University Park; Plan of Nevada Governor Kenny C. Guinn regarding the state's Millennium Scholarship program.

Provides information on issues related to the field of higher education in the U.S. as of April 2, 2004. Refunds for students who attended Nevada's public colleges at any time since 1995; Qualification for in-state tuition at public schools in Nevada; Issue of admissions at the University of California at Berkeley.

Discusses the program of the University of California that automatically admits the top four percent of high-school graduating class in the state. Benefits of the program to Hispanic students and applicants from rural schools; Significance of the program in promoting racial diversity in schools.

Reports that some states in the United States have decided to toughen college admission standards in the near future. Worry of some college officials about the plan; Basis for the plan; Proposal considered by higher education officials in West Virginia.

Focuses on the proposed admissions process at the University of California, to replace its two-tier selection procedure. Details of the proposed admission process for all applicants; Amount allocated for the proposed comprehensive-admissions policy; Possible motives for coming up with the proposed admissions process.

Reports that officials of the University of California delayed their dual admissions plan for minority students due to lack of funds. Approval of the university's Board of Regents on the dual-admissions plan; Financial source of the dual admissions plan; Family income of students under the dual admissions plan.

Presents news briefs on higher education in the United States as of August 3, 2001. Approval by the University of California's Board of Regents of a change to the system's admissions policy in July 2001; Objective of a report card on higher education services.

Reports that United States District Court Judge Bernard A. Friedman has ruled that the admission policies at the University of Michigan's Law School are unconstitutional because race plays too large a role in the admissions. Order issued by Friedman to the university in line with the ruling; Impact of the ruling on affirmative action in admissions; Admission of Afro-Americans in the law school.

Reports on the plan of the University of California Board of Regents to overturn a policy enacted in 1995 that bars the use of affirmative action in university admissions. Admission of minority students at the university in 2000; Amount allotted by the university for its outreach program; Argument against the overturning of the policy.

Reports that Pennsylvania's state-university system has decided to scrap the plans to automatically admit the top 15 percent of every highschool graduating class in the state. Admission system to replace the top 15 plan of the university system; Reasons behind the decision of the university system; Universities under the Pennsylvania university system.

Discusses the complaints of college admissions officers in the United States on privacy laws affecting the recruitment of eligible students. Impact of the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act on the release of student records; Actions taken by the Texas Education Agency to address the complaints of college officials; Policy of California on release of students' class-rank data.

Reports on a proposal by the University of California in Berkeley to extend offers of admission to students in top 12.5 percent of every high-school graduating class. Aim of the move; Provisions of the admission proposal; Significance of the plan's focus on minority students.

Reports on the ruling of a judge in Florida that will end affirmative action in college admissions. Challenge to the plan of Governor Jeb Bush by the United States National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); How the plan will admit the top twenty percent of graduating seniors in Florida to schools in the State University System of Florida; Problems with the plan, including different academic standards in public schools.

Reports on the United States Commission on Civil Rights' criticisms of statewide admissions policies based on class rank. Substitute for and arguments in favor of affirmative action programs; Efforts to draw minority students from largely segregated high schools; Presidential candidates Al Gore's and George W. Bush's views on the issue.

Focuses on the campaign efforts of United States presidential candidate George W. Bush. Bush support of replacing the use of affirmative action and race considerations for college admission; Endorsement of a program that guarantees college placement for the top ten percent of students from every high school; Bush tax plan for a tax credit for corporate-sponsored research, deduction of charitable contributions and increasing the ceiling on education savings accounts.

Discusses the efforts of university officials in Florida to postpone the elimination of affirmative action in graduate and professional-school admissions. Concern that minority enrollment in graduate schools will drop; Expected time frame; Affirmative action in undergraduate schools in Florida; Other considerations.

Reports proposal to terminate affirmative actions in public-college admissions in Florida. Replacement of racial preferences in admission; Admission of high school graduates in public universities; Adoption of class-rank criterion; Criticisms on the proposal.

Focuses on the efforts of college officials in Texas to recruit minority students. The 1996 Hopwood v. Texas decision which banned the use of affirmative action by Texas institutions; Use of an adversity index to increase the number of scholarships offered by Texas schools to minority students; Role of campus location in students' college choices; Insecurities of minority students who do not feel welcome at Texas schools.

Focuses on how several states in the United States are taking advantage of a strong economy to prepare for the expected coming surge of college students as of July 1999. California Governor Gray Davis' signing of a budget increasing state funds for the University of California and California State University; University of North Carolina system's plans to serve students expected in the next decade; Scholarships in Nevada; Aggressive marketing.

Offers news briefs pertaining to higher education in the United States as of May 28, 1999. Ruling regarding the constitutionality of a Washington State program which assists students attending private colleges with religious affiliations; University of Washington blaming a ban on racial preferences for a sharp drop in the number of underrepresented minority freshmen planning to matriculate in the fall.

Reports that a federal judge in Texas has refused to award damages to the white plaintiffs in an affirmative-action lawsuit filed against the University of Texas. The determination that the plaintiffs would not have been admitted to the University of Texas law school even if it had used a race-neutral admission process; Details of the decision in the trial known as Hopwood v. Texas.

Reports that the University of Michigan has revised the guidelines it uses to admit undergraduate students. How it has changed its use of race in undergraduate admissions and at its law school; Arguments against Michigan's changes as made by Michael S. Greve, executive director of the Center for Individual Rights, a group that filed two lawsuits against Michigan; Michigan's old system; Details of the new guidelines.

Reports that a panel at the University of California has recommended that the university system eliminate the use of SAT scores to try to increase the enrollment of minority students. The reaction by state and university officials; Further explanation behind the recommendation by the Latino Eligibility Task Force.