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California Universities Will Cut Enrollment Unless State Increases Money
Tamar Lewin, NYTIMES.com
Hard hit by budget cuts, the California State University system is planning to cut its enrollment by 10,000 students for the 2009-10 academic year, unless state lawmakers provide more money.
"We can’t continue to admit more and more students without receiving adequate funding," Chancellor Charles B. Reed said Monday. It would be the first time in its history that the university system turned away students who met admissions standards, and the announcement was greeted with disappointment and anger.


New Programs at Drew University
From the Drew University web site

"Drew believes the next generation of business leaders needs more than a basic business education. Our new business studies major combines the best of a traditional business education with the best of the liberal arts tradition. Students go beyond the balance sheet to consider the history of work, the business of sustainability and the economic theory that underpins it all."

"In the best liberal arts tradition, Drew University tackles the problem head on with a brand-new environmental studies and sustainability major, which is emerging as the first of its kind among liberal arts colleges in the United States……Based on both the natural sciences and human interactions with the environment, the major focuses on how we as a society can live sustainably with the natural world."


Early apps at Yale set record
Raymond Carlson, Staff Reporter, Yale Daily News, 11/14/08
The number of early action applicants to Yale College increased by more than 10.4 percent this year, Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzel said Thursday.
The most recent count, taken on Thursday, shows that a record-breaking 5,400 students have applied for admission into the class of 2013, Brenzel said. That figure is expected to climb to about 5,500 once all the received applications have been counted, he added — an increase of 12.5 percent over last year.


Build Out At Brown Will Make Cable, Broadcast Go Dark Next Year
Linda Haugsted -- Multichannel News, 10/5/2008
Starting next year, students at Brown University in Providence, R.I., will experience campus life without conventional broadcast and cable TV, when the campus shuts down its cable plant. Instead, the students will rely solely on Internet-protocol television to get their network fixes.
According to the campus newspaper, the Brown Daily Herald, the campus cable infrastructure was built in 1980 and is now in such a state of decay that officials have decided to mothball it rather than spend the "astronomical" amount it would cost to bring it up to state-of-the-art.
The students are not strangers to IPTV: the campus introduced TV streaming via the Internet in 2005. Because that system actually has more channels than the aging cable system, usage is already high, according to the paper, and all residential buildings are connected to the platform.
However, because students do still have television in their rooms, the campus’s residential life council will try to work out a way to help students acquire hardware — by rental, buy-back schemes or advanced deposits — that they can use to link their streamed content to their dorm TV sets.

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