ACT replaces leader and moves to cut costs; College Board accused of difficulties in SAT registration.
The ACT on Thursday replaced its leader and announced plans to cut costs. The College Board on Thursday and Friday opened registration on its fall schedule for the SAT and quickly encountered problems.
And more colleges announced that they were going test optional for at least a year, while the demand to register for the SAT showed continued demand to take the test.
ACT
ACT announced that Marten Roorda was being replaced as CEO by Janet Godwin on an interim basis. Godwin has been at ACT for 30 years, most recently as chief operating officer.
Roorda arrived at ACT in 2015 after serving as CEO of Cito, a testing organization in the Netherlands.
During his time at ACT, Roorda was more public in expressing his views on issues that could help or hurt ACT than were his predecessors. Just last month, he sent a long letter to the University of California Board of Regents in which he urged it to reject the advice of Janet Napolitano, president of the system, to phase out the SAT and the ACT. The Board of Regents unanimously voted for Napolitano’s plan.