College Surfing is offering up their Champions of social media usage in higher ed. Although I did my own rankings of college use of technology in the past, it is always refreshing to see another’s look. They focus on Web 2.0 but do not really quantify exactly what that means. Looking at the more detailed [...]

Jeffrey Brenzel, admissions dean at Yale, said via e-mail that the video is “a campy musical extravaganza that also manages to convey the real spirit of the students and the place.”
Check out the commentary in Inside highered and The New York times has this doozie:
For heaven’s sake, it’s YALE, not Taco Bell. With their miniscule [...]

Google maps is one of the coolest things on the web. They now offer streetview for two college campus: Boston University
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and San Diego State University.
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I have long been a fan of both the concept and implementation of Unigo. They cannot get their students reviews on colleges up fast enough for me. They have now partnered with The Wall Street Journal for a whole new level of content. This includes videos featuring 8 Admissions Officers from Eight Top Colleges Discuss and [...]

Eric Fruda from University of Pennsylvania has been answering questions at the Choice Blog at the New York Times.
On lousy grades in freshman year:
The best way to counter any potential negative impact of a rough start in freshman grades is to continue on the upward trend exhibited since that time. I believe students can rebound from [...]

The New York Times has a feature on College admission blogging focusing on the mighty MIT.
Dozens of colleges — including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Vassar, Wellesley and Yale — are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful marketing tool for high school students, who these days are less interested in official [...]

Here is a list of the universitie sin the YouTube EDU channel:

A

Abilene Christian University

Adams State College

Agnes Scott College

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Alfred University

Amherst College

Arizona State University

Armstrong Atlantic State University

Auburn University

B

Bentley University

Berklee College of Music

Birmingham-Southern College

Bocconi University

Boston College

Boston University

Brandeis University

Bucknell University

C

CSU - Dominguez Hills

CSU - Northridge

CSU - Sonoma

CUNY - City University of New [...]

I have been tracking universities use of Youtube for some time. Youtube announced that they 45 new Universities, including Cambridge University, Open University, Bocconi University and Open University of Catalonia housed in their Youtube EDU channel, making 200 universities serving up 40,000 videos in various categories:

Business
Education
Engineering
Fine Arts & Design
Health & Medicine
History
Humanities
Journalism & Media
Law
Literature
Mathematics
Science
Social Science

Stanford [...]

I have been a long time advocate of college admission offices having clear policies on “friending” and how they use semi-public information such as facebook or my space profiles in the admission process:
While 86% of college students have a Facebook account, according to a 2008 survey by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, only 13% of [...]

USA Today has published a new interactive tool maping out Princeton Review’s 100 best value colleges, which include these schools:
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1. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.)
2. Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.)
3. Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.)
4. Rice University (Houston, Texas)
5. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
6. Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.)
7. Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.)
8. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena)
9. Pomona [...]