Today, the day after incoming Rutgers football coach Kyle Flood announced the commitments of the most successful class in his team’s history, there is a story on NJ.com and affiliates that Rutgers faculty have asked that cuts be made in …
Jan
24
Profile: University of Connecticut
Being a Rutgers graduate, as well as a fan of the Scarlet Knights football and basketball teams, Ed was a little nervous behind the wheel as he drove up to “enemy territory,” the main campus of the University of Connecticut, …
Jan
18
Updated Profile: Virginia Tech
We got a few interesting comments offline about this profile, so we decided to do more research about Virginia Tech for you. While our impressions of Virginia Tech are still largely positive, we learned that more information was necessary to …
Jan
10
Kiplinger’s Public College Rankings Show Value–But They’re Not Always Right
Last week Kiplinger’s released their annual list of the 100 Best Values in Public Colleges. There is no argument with their top pick: the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. We profiled the school. There are many reasons beyond Kiplinger’s methodology …
Jan
06
How to ‘Save’ the Penn State ‘Brand’
This week, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story, Penn State Scandal Encompasses Professors, Too. The story mentions how faculty have had little role in the governance of the school, although it is one of the nation’s leading research …
Jan
03
Ed’s Best Schools of 2011
We began the 2011-12 school year with visits to 12 top-performing public colleges and universities, with plans to visit several more in coming weeks. While we had favorable impressions of all of the schools we visited, some stood out as …
Dec
22
Profile: University of Maryland-College Park
The University of Maryland-College Park, to date, is Ed’s highest rated school. While not as selective as UVa or UNC-Chapel Hill, Maryland some interesting twists on academics as well as one of the best places to live and study while …
Dec
19
Profile: The Pennsylvania State University
Ed is finally getting caught up on his profiles. He just finished this one on Penn State and its main campus in the heart of Pennsylvania, aka “Nittany Lion Country.” While his journey to Penn State was not like a …
Dec
12
Profile: James Madison University
Ed has stopped traveling for 2011 and he’s putting pedal to the metal to catch up on profiles. Today he finished the profile for James Madison University (JMU), a top-performing regional university in Virginia, and about two hours south of …
Nov
28
Football legends do not run universities, even at Penn State
This weekend there was an interesting piece in The New Yorker about the recent events at Penn State. What made the piece interesting was that the author went back to the fall of 2008 point out crowds of over-excited students …