With cutbacks, fee hikes and decrease of enrollment, everyone is wondering exactly how the University of California will make decisions this year. Seven of the nine campuses–all but UCLA and Merced–have announced they will use waitlists to help manage their enrollment.
Source: LA Times.

The Fullbright program is the flagship scholarship program of the United States. Today we look at Master’s level insitutions:

Master’s institutions
Number of awards
Number of applicants

Rollins College
4
7

Drake U.
3
8

Hunter College of City U. of New York
3
7

Saint Joseph’s U. (Pa.)
3
8

U. of Portland
3
5

U. of Redlands
3
14

U. of Scranton
3
7

Valparaiso U.
3
7

Augsburg College
2
2

California State U. at Sacramento
2
4

Canisius College
2
3

Central Washington U.
2
2

City College of City U. [...]

From the China Daily (Registration required–free):
Problems emerge when an increasing number of Chinese students choose to study in foreign countries. Many students have complained that agencies have misled them and that they have had problems with their overseas universities, colleges and schools. Nick (not his real name) is one of them. The   28-year-old who now [...]

Sadly this comic reflects the respect an art degree seems to get. Clearly people are not reading enough Daniel Pink, who writes that the MFA is the new MBA. Four reasons highlight how valuable the MFA is to the business world (and I argue the same is true for a BFA):
1. How to take criticism. In [...]

From Inside higher ed:
After career at Yale, Alison Richard was tapped as Cambridge’s leader. In podcast interview, she discusses academic leadership and the future of research universities.

Below are the top 10 places to live in 2009, according to RelocateAmerica.com:
1. Tulsa: The energy jobs in Tulsa have kept the area relatively stable during the economic downturn, according to its profile on RelocateAmerica.com. The unemployment rate was 5.6% in January, more than three points below the national average. The median price of an existing [...]

The cost of attendance usually does NOT take into account the full cost of living. It

The Regents are at it again. Think  the SAT subject test are worthless? Apparently the University of California regents do too: They voted to drop them as a requirement for the freshman class of 2012.
University of California regents today gave preliminary approval to a change in freshman admission standards that would drop the requirement for [...]

Okay trying again for the college 2.0 spreadsheet. I have successfully downloaded from clicking here. The spreadsheet is available here:
 collegetwo
Note this is a PDF. I am not sure why the excell spread sheet is not working

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