Some places just look like colleges should look like. Often movie producers go out of thewir way to capture a particualr ambiance when they make a movie which has a college foucs. Look at fictional Faber college in Animal House. It was actually filmed at University of Oregon–after 12 colleges in six states said no. [...]

What They’re Reading on College Campuses
1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 2 (in previous survey)

3. Nightlight: A Parody by the staff of The Harvard Lampoon 10

4. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown 1

5. [...]

According to Unigo:

01
Reed College

02
Wabash College

03
University of Chicago

04
Whitman College

05
Swarthmore College

06
Bennington College

07
Pitzer College

08
Hampshire College

09
Sarah Lawrence College

10
Grinnell College

Let see how they did when you compare it with the data on full-bright scholars?
Top U.S. Producers of Fulbright Students, by Type of Institutions, 2009-10

Research institutions
Number of awards
Number of applicants

Northwestern U.
32
109

U. of Chicago
31
128

Brown U.
29
106

Stanford U.
28
87

U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor
28
111

Yale U.
25
92

Columbia [...]

According to Unigo:

01
Wabash College

02
Harvey Mudd College

03
Washington and Lee University

04
Whitman College

05
Claremont McKenna College

06
Pomona College

07
Pepperdine University

08
Bennington College

09
Davidson College

10
Pitzer College

Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education — one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of [...]

Good news: University of Florida has a plan in case they are attacked by Zombies. No kidding. OK, one of their staff members was kidding–just wanted to put a lighter side on Campus Safety: Identifying characteristics of a zombie outbreak, the overall impact of said zombie outbreak, and operational topics to keep in mind during the [...]

A very interesting article from the Chronicle dicusses the 10 years since the Bolgna accord has come into effect:
In June 1999, the education ministers of 29 European countries signed the Bologna Declaration, pledging to work toward the creation of a European Higher Education Area. The landmark declaration was short on specifics, but its aims included [...]

SO you want to study business, do you?
Well what exactly is business?
Wikipedia does a nice break down of the field and the collegeboard offers a more specific look at the major in US college while the  British Council outlines the UK approach in their Fact Sheet. As a fan of the new media, I went [...]

Over the past year, lots of stories have emerged focusing on Chinese students cheating to get into college, cheating at college, or buying degrees. The latest involves a girl who stole another girl’s identity to go to college. But the Chinese are not alone as this excellent article outlines vey diverse cheating in the USA [...]

I had no idea just how many colleges had revamped their liberal arts core requirements–sure Harvard has been commented on a lot, but “18 percent have adopted changes in the last five years, 30 percent are assessing learning outcomes to consider possible changes, 22 percent are in the process of discussing proposals for changes, and [...]