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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Today we continue our series looking more specifically as what goes on inside a major, by providing links to some of the best descriptions and web 2.0 technologies out there. Today’s Field Guide to Communications follows the same basic format as last week’s Field Guide to Business.
What is the study?
• Wikipedia does a nice break [...]

Now that the offers have come in, how do you decide which one is right for you? Pick the highest rank and be done with it? Roll some dice? Pick the one with the best weather? All make sense depending who you are, but I would encourage a little more invovled decision making:

How does this [...]