Students who score relatively low on the first half of the test will get easier questions in the second half.

These immediate changes are fueling a larger debate about the future of higher education.

Aside from standardized test scores, the entire college application process seems very subjective.

In June, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the state university system—including multicultural centers and campus identity groups.

Thirteen students were arrested outside of an inauguration for Emerson College’s new president Friday while protesting the Israel-Hamas war.

The education department said calculation errors rendered hundreds of thousands of student aid forms unusable, setting time-strapped colleges back further. The notoriously rocky rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA)keeps getting rockier. On Friday, the Education Department acknowledged that a calculation error by the office of Federal Student Aid led to inaccurate aid estimates on hundreds of thousands of Institutional Student Information Records, or ISIRs, processed in the past few months.

A Chronicle survey of Florida and Texas institutions reveals how chaotic the implementation of the controversial laws has really been.