The 16 Most Selective Colleges In The Country The Huffington Post teamed up with the Princeton Review, one of the nation’s leading education-services companies, to present this special feature on the nation's most selective colleges -- and how to get in to them. The goal of our “America’s Most Selective Colleges” project is to give college-bound students and their parents straight-on information about these challenging schools' acceptance rates and truly savvy tips for applicants. To that end, we asked the Princeton Review to shares its list of the 16 colleges in its flagship book, The Best 376 Colleges (published August 2011) that earned a 99 -– the highest possible score -- on the Company's unique "Admissions Selectivity Rating." Presented in alphabetical order, this list is based on the Princeton Review's analysis of data it exclusively gathers from its institutional and student surveys. The Princeton Review publishes college information, admissions data, and application guidance on its website and Facebook.
Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords SEATTLE (AP) -- When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password. Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to search for his Facebook page. But she couldn't see his private profile. Why Content Marketing Beats Out Advertising Advertising has met a fierce rival: Content marketing. According to an infographic by Marketo, content marketing is a growing force because it develops trust and minimizes risk, drives traffic and captures leads, and nurtures those leads. The biggest problem for content marketers is figuring out how to produce engaging content, followed by trying to produce enough content. Over the next year, 51 percent of B2B marketers will increase their budgets for content marketing, and currently, an average of 26 percent of all budgets are devoted to content marketing. Frank Reed of Marketing Pilgrim points to Econsultancy and Responsys marketing data that finds that in terms of digital marketing spending, content marketing is leading the way.
Five items you’d find in a 2012 college time capsule By Cristina Toscano Ah, the flash drive. This generation’s floppy disk. Image from Stockbyte. Being in college is weird. France Shooting Suspect Tracked Down Through IP Address French police have tracked down the "scooter shooter," who allegedly murdered seven people in a two-week killing spree in the name of al Qaeda, through an IP address. Mohamed Merah, 24, is suspected of shooting three children and a rabbi Monday in the southwestern city of Toulouse at a Jewish school. He also shot three French soldiers of north African descent in two separate events on March 11 and 15. According to Reuters, he was tracked down with the IP address he used to contact the first soldier he shot, saying he was interested in buying his motorcycle. His mother's IP address, which he has been using, was already being monitored by French authorities because of his alleged radical Islamist beliefs.
Standing out from the crowd with great content: The Strand bookstore - The Bureau Megan Scarborough / Staff Writer - Each week, the Strand Bookstore in New York City sends an email newsletter packed with click-worthy content backed up with engaging social channels, unique content curation on its site, and a robust event calendar. Like other smart brick-and-mortar bookstores across the country, the Strand uses great content to compel people to buy from independent bookstores. The Strand’s winning content strategy is based on a true understanding of what makes it stand out from algorithm-driven online booksellers. From live events to curated content on its site and friendly, knowledgeable experts who can help customers discover their next favorite book, they provide something Amazon cannot.
Extra-Curricular Activities In my FYC class, we’ve been talking about the divisions we impose in education: the divisions we impose on subjects and disciplines, as well as the difference between curricular and extra-curricular activities. We are sent the message about what counts, what really counts, and what we could/should do away with. These messages often directly conflict with the students’ perceptions and attitudes. How many of you, I ask them, look forward to school not because of the subjects you learned but the activities you did after school? But for parents and teachers, these extra-curricular activities (or bird classes or even being able to go home and play video games) are at best a motivating factor (get a B average or no more swim team!), at worst a distraction from the “real” work of getting an education.
Legal Blogging: How to Craft the Right Strategy Kevin O’Keefe is CEO and publisher of LexBlog, the leading provider of professional turnkey blog and social media solutions. The LexBlog Network (LXBN), with over 7,000 lawyers and other service professionals, is the largest network of professionals blogging. For the better part of a decade, law firms have successfully used blogs to bring in high-quality work. Now, there is new industry research that measures the impact of blogs as business development tools. A recent survey by communications firm Greentarget measured how in-house counsel use and perceive blogs. Content Marketing For SEO: An Infograhic - The Bureau Based on search trends, content marketing is on an exponential rise. There are many good reasons for its rise in popularity. But one of the biggest is the application of content marketing for SEO.
Governor Malloy is right, teachers' union wrong, on education reform A lot of teacher anger, but the governor is doing what he must to fix failing urban schools, keep state competitive March 22, 2012 Connecticut has a governor with an ambitious education agenda that includes improving the teacher corps, sharing dollops of new money with poor-performing districts and closing the achievement gap. But what's different and even better, the state finally has a leader who has the stomach to take the political heat to achieve his agenda. LAUSD hires social media coordinator Los Angeles Unified is about to go viral, with a social media director launching Facebook, Twitter and YouTube sites in an effort to broaden the district's community outreach. Former CBS/KCAL reporter Stephanie Abrams, who started her LAUSD job early this month, will also be integrating other district and campus networks and working to create websites at schools that don't yet have them. "The sky's the limit," said Abrams, whose television stint included coverage of the technology sector. "We're not sure yet what the response will be." One of Abrams' first tasks was relaunching the district's Facebook page, which on Monday featured a photo of students from 186th Elementary School hanging out at "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno's garage. Using the district's new Twitter account, @LASchools, Abrams tweeted Granada Hills Charter High's weekend victory at the state Academic Decathlon and the debate over the budget at last week's school board meeting.
Making mistakes a marketing campaign: Maker’s Mark Jackie Mancini / Staff Writer - Big mistakes are an unfortunate but inevitable aspect of any business. It’s one reason why PR departments exist – to clean them up when things get messy. The trick is knowing your brand well enough to anticipate what will hurt it, and what can serve to strengthen it, if played right. Cal State Plans to Freeze Enrollment The California State University system, still reeling from drastic funding cuts, announced a bold plan to freeze enrollment next spring, according to a story in Monday’s Los Angeles Times. Under the proposal, the vast majority of the California State University system’s campuses will not accept new students in the spring of 2013, with exceptions being made for just a few hundred students transferring to certain campuses. A further 20,000 to 25,000 students could be turned away in the fall of 2013, part of a plan to trim enrollment by 3 percent if further funding cuts materialize, Cal State officials told reporters.