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Columns::September 10, 2001

Around academe

Creative solutions to space crunch
Colleges and universities across the nation are having to come up with creative solutions to space crunches. Many schools are finding themselves faced with record enrollments, leading to housing problems.
Dartmouth College offered a year’s worth of free rent—worth about $5,000—to students willing to defer enrollment; Princeton has been housing students in trailers. Other schools, such as St. Michael’s College in Vermont, are finding themselves with surplus students, even without tapping the waiting list.

Entrance scores remaining steady
The average ACT score for this year’s high school graduates is identical to that of every class since 1997—despite an increase in the number of test takers.
The testing company says the steady results are good news because more students are taking college-prep courses.
However, although the average numbers remain consistent, racial disparities exist in the scores. Average scores of 21.8 for whites and 21.7 for Asian Americans held steady while African-American average scores of 16.9 dropped slightly from last year’s 17.

--Jocelyn Newman

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