Tagged: "California"
Budget Woes and Blows to the University of California System
The University of California system is taking a beating due to the sagging economy and the state’s budgetary woes (the state really needs a new constitution or a major overhaul of the map of its legislative districts–which is a textbook case of the evils of gerrymandering). Most commentaries have focused on the access to the [...]
Menlo College: A Tiny, Focused Business College in Silicon Valley
Last week I was able to visit Menlo College in Atherton, California. I was part of a tour organized by the Independent Educational Consultants Association. Our tour began with a fine lunch in the dining hall—where the food is organic and the head of dining services has a commitment to serving local products, when possible. [...]
St. Mary's College of California–Solid Liberal Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area
Yesterday I was glad to be able to visit St. Mary’s College in the Bay Area of Northern California. As regular readers know, I spend a lot of time visiting colleges, and every time I think I’ve seen it all, I’m reminded of the huge variety of colleges in this country. St. Mary’s has several [...]
University of San Francisco–an urban, Jesuit college in the Bay Area
I seem to have been visiting quite a few Jesuit colleges lately. I tend to like them for a lot of reasons. I need to write a post on Jesuit colleges generally. But first, I offer this bit about the University of San Francisco, which I was fortunate to be able to visit yesterday as [...]
Value Universities for the "Rest of Us"–A Difficult Claim To Maintain
Today a reader called me out on my decision to focus in a recent post on the Top 10 Value Colleges as identified by the Princeton Review (Kiplinger’s has a similar list, about which I also wrote about). My reader made the point that public universities can be a better deal, and that the [...]
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