Barely beating out two other colleges this year, Portland Maine University (PMU) became the first institution in the country to recruit a perfect freshman class. “Faculty and staff have been urging us to recruit perfect students,” said director of enrollment, Tobey Tuttle, “and this year we got sick of the requests and just did it. [...]

The University of West Kansas dropped initial plans to implement a creative, low-cost program aimed at decreasing epidemic levels of student cheating and binge drinking. “We loved the plan initially, but we just weren’t thinking clearly,” said director of leadership initiatives and assessment, Peggy Kolby. “We realized it’s impossible to measure ‘doing the right thing’ [...]