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Direct linkGodfrey, Jenifer F.; Brown, Amber M.; Hubbard, Rebecca E.; Clayton, Ashley B. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2020
The President of prestigious Beacon University is dealing with a nationwide scandal involving its admissions and athletics operations. For years, a network of corrupt admissions consultants, standardized test proctors, and college coaches operated a lucrative underground pipeline into top universities, and it has recently infiltrated Beacon. Under…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admissions Officers, Athletic Coaches, College Entrance Examinations
Soares, Joseph A., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2011
What can a college admissions officer safely predict about the future of a 17-year-old? Are the best and the brightest students the ones who can check off the most correct boxes on a multiple-choice exam? Or are there better ways of measuring ability and promise? In this penetrating and revealing look at high-stakes standardized admissions tests,…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, Educational Research, College Admission, College Presidents
Peer reviewedMoll, Richard W. – Change, 1992
Areas in which the priorities and concerns of the college admissions officer and the college faculty often conflict are examined, including development of a well-rounded student body, statistical comparisons of student characteristics among institutions, and the image projected by the admissions office in its marketing. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Admissions Officers, College Admission
