Economy Stimulating Popularity of Public Colleges

See Well-regarded public colleges get a surge of bargain hunters, NYT, 3/2/09, at A1

Economy leaves black college campuses strapped for cash

See Economy hits hard on black campuses, NYT, 2/19/09

UC Irvine to Start Law School Offering Free Tuition to All Students

See California: law school lure: no tuition, NYT, 12/25/08, at A20

-hopes to be top 20 school from outset, 60 members of inaugural class in 2009

NYS Education Commissioner Richard Mills to Step Down in June 2009

See Education Commissioner to leave post in Albany, NYT, 11/1/08, at A19

MBA Applications Up in Tough Economic Times

See In tough times, MBA applications may be an economic indicator, NYT, 10/7/08, at 2.

In addition, more potential students are applying to online MBA programs in hopes of fighting the recession.

Vermont Law School Bars Military Recruiters and Loses Federal Grants

See Law School Pays the Price in Don't Ask Rule Protest," NYT, 6/29/08, at 15

-feds still cut off funding under Solomon Amendment if schools don't allow military recruiters on campus
-Vermont 1 of 2 schools protesting 15 year rule preventing openly gay and lesbians from serving in military

Yale University to Increase Enrollment

See Yale to increase undergraduate enrollment by 15%, NYT, 6/8/08, at A1

Wake Forest University and Smith College End Requirement for Incoming Students to Submit SAT or ACT scores

See "Two colleges end test-score requirement," NYT, 5/27/08 at A19

America's Top Colleges Growing Richer with Endowments

See "Wealth Gap growing bigger among American colleges," NYT, 2/20/08, at B6

-Stanford, Harvard outpacing rivals (USC, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Yale, Duke, UCLA next)

Commercial Education Vendors Suffer as Student Loans Tighte

See "As Lending Tightens, Education Could Suffer," NYT, 2/19/08, at C1

-commercial colleges offering practical education to lower income students suffer

Princeton to Encourage Prefreshman to Volunteer Abroad for One Year Before College

See "Princeton plans for an early year abroad," NYT, 2/19/08, at A19

-Princeton to encourage 10% of prefreshman to go abroad before college

Harvard Proposes to Have Faculty Distribute Scholarship Free Online on Web

See "At Harvard, a proposal to publish free on web," NYT, 2/12/08, at F1

-explaining open access movement over signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals with small readerships and costly subscription fees

SUNY evicting students from dorms who fail to maintain minimum GPA

See "Dorm rooms are revoked over grades," NYT, 2/13/08, at B1

-explaining enforcement of minimum 2.0 GPA rule for students to stay in dorms at SUNY Old Westbury

College Applications Rising Even Faster

Check out "Applications to Colleges are Breaking Records," NYT, 1/17/08, at A22