{"id":2398,"date":"2018-08-20T07:13:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T11:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2018-08-20T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T11:15:00","slug":"common-app-removes-criminal-history-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/08\/20\/common-app-removes-criminal-history-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Common App Removes Criminal History Question"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Common Application announced<\/a> it will no longer ask students about their criminal history, a big win for \u201cban the box\u201d advocates.<\/p>\n

Common App\u2019s announcement is a shift in policy. The question has been asked since 2006. Common App last reviewed the policy in March 2017 and decided to keep the question.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur focus is always on serving the needs of members, students, and counselors. We believe this change provides members with the greatest flexibility and is most responsive to the evolving landscape around this issue. As the conversation around criminal history continues, we will keep monitoring it to ensure we support the needs of our membership,\u201d Common App President and CEO Jenny Rickard wrote<\/a> in the announcement of the new policy.<\/p>\n

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The change will take place on the 2019-20 application. However, individual colleges using the Common App will still be able to ask about an applicant\u2019s criminal history in their supplements to the application.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the US Department of Education released\u00a0Beyond the Box: Increasing Access to Higher Education for Justice-Involved Individuals<\/a>, <\/em>a guide with recommendations for the way colleges should approach inquiring about an applicant\u2019s involvement in the criminal justice system. The department\u2019s goal was to ensure that these questions didn\u2019t crush the college dreams of young people, particularly young men of color who are overly represented in the country\u2019s prison population.<\/p>\n

NACAC released a joint statement on the guide with the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) at the time, urging enrollment professionals to study the guide\u2019s discussion questions and to offer guidance to prospective students about how to respond to questions related to involvement in the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n

NACAC and AACRAO hoped that the guide would \u201cencourage thoughtful discussions about the best ways to promote equity, support safe campuses, and serve students who have been involved in the criminal justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<\/em>adobson@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Common Application announced it will no longer ask students about their criminal history, a big win for \u201cban the box\u201d advocates. Common App\u2019s announcement is a shift in policy. The question has been asked since 2006. Common App last reviewed the policy in March 2017 and decided to keep the question. \u201cOur focus is … Continue reading Common App Removes Criminal History Question<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-college-admission-in-the-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-CG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}