TVO is sponsoring a competition to find best lecturer in Canadian universities. Today we look at Social sciences:

2009 | Department of Sociology - Ryerson University |
What the students say:
“It is her ability to learn that makes Patrizia Albanese such a good teacher. She is the only professor I actually enjoy waking up at 8 on Wednesday mornings [...]

Juniors start recieving letters from colleges saying “Hey you are exactly the sort of student we want!” Feels pretty good right? Only….it is a bit of a lie. One of my students claims a certain ivy league college has been stalking him for almost a year. He told him that he is over them…but thy [...]

More students compete for fewer UC slots
By Robert Faturechi 
rfaturechi@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Jan. 05, 2009 | Page 1A

More students have applied to attend a University of California campus next year than any year in UC’s history.
The count is preliminary, UC officials said, but will likely amount to a record number of rejection letters sent to high school [...]

Will the University of California offer more spaces to Out of state students to cover budget shortfall? I am not sure how they can, given the huge demands from their own students. 
If they dramatically increase the number of out of state students the potential political backash could be huge. As the LA Times reports, there [...]

The Boston Globe has a short article on the growing number of US citizens looking north of the boarder for college. 
Dalhousie University in Halifax, for instance, said requests for information from New England students have tripled this fall. McGill University in Montreal, where 100 students from Massachusetts enrolled this fall, and the University of Toronto, Canada’s largest [...]

Although colleges requir the personal statement to be submitted typed, not read, it is delightful to hear the author’s voice.

Here is the transcript:
Somewhere in my house hangs the best picture of me ever taken. I am in my third grade reading teacher’s classroom wearing this horrible maroon hat along with this horribly toothy grin. It’s [...]

Questions and Answers continue today at the New York Times, with the four admission directors addressing the reader’s questions, for example:
 

Be honest: Do you really read all the essays submitted? Or, do you read only for the borderline cases?
- Vinod

Mr. Poch of Pomona: We do at Pomona. But some colleges use the essays as a tie [...]

New York Times has a great Q and A from four leading deans of admissions:
Jeff Brenzel, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., which in 2007 had 5,275 undergraduates and 6,083 graduate and professional students.
Bruce Poch, Vice President and Dean of Admissions at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., which has an [...]

U.S. News profiles 30 careers that offer strong outlooks and high job satisfaction. More…

Audiologist
Biomedical Equipment Technician
Clergy
Curriculum/ Training Specialist
Engineer
Firefighter
Fundraiser
Genetic Counselor
Ghostwriter
Government Manager
Hairstylist/ Cosmetologist
Health Policy Specialist
Higher Education Administrator
Landscape Architect
Librarian
Locksmith/ Security System Technician

Management Consultant
Mediator
Registered Nurse
Occupational Therapist
Optometrist
Pharmacist
Physical Therapist
Physician Assistant
Politician/ Elected Official
Urban Regional Planner
School Psychologist
Surgical Technologist
Systems Analyst
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Veterinarian