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. [...]

I agree with Jeffrey Brenzel, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale,when he explains that “We’ve reversed the equation–that the college is going to make something out of your life, when actually it’s the student who makes something out of college,” he says.He goes on to explain in an interview with the Huffington Post
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“Any strong college [...]

Steven Henry Madoff, who is senior critic at the Yale University School of Art, has a new book,  Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) (MIT Press). The book contains essays, questionnaire interviews, and transcripts of conversations by and among prominent artists and art educators, all of them addressing the mission and means of the art [...]

Let the rejoicing begin: China has their own bad football league academic association of prestigous universities they are calling C9 (I hope it sounds better in Chinese).
Xu Mei, the ministry’s spokeswoman, said the establishment of the conference is a “helpful attempt that is conducive to the country’s construction of high-quality colleges, cultivation of top-notch innovative [...]

The Times not only reports on that Oxford has released Interview questions for the first time ever, but also provides them with commentary:
Subject: Geography
Interviewer: Lorraine Wild, St Hilda’s College
Q: If I were to visit the area where you live, what would I be interested in?
Lorraine Wild: ‘The question gives candidates an opportunity to apply concepts from their [...]

Just had to post the video from the Daily show that explores The Harvard Pledge:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Olin college is a great new college that came to fame for offering project based learning in Engineering and full ride scholarships for all students. Now comes news, that they need to cut back:
In order to maintain academic quality and a sustainable financial model in the face of the economic downturn, Franklin W. Olin College [...]

Continuing in our series on Field guides to different majors (see Field Guide to Business here and Communications here), this week we have the Field Guide to Psychology. Psychology has proven to be one of the most popular majors at colleges everywhere.
What is the study?
• Wikipedia does a nice break down of the field and the CollegeBoard offers [...]

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 [...]

I bet these guys do to. Crucnhgear has some very interesting coverage of MIT eurekafest aimed at showcasing high school students engineering ingenuity.
EurekaFest is a yearly event held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that showcases the prototype inventions of high school students from around the country. The inventions consist of various gadgets and devices [...]