The latest "blog carnival" and some postings for the college-bound...

The latest edition of the Carnival of College Admission is up and running!

This one is chock full of information for the college-bound kid, parent, family, and all sorts of other people. For instance:

You can hear from Fort Lewis College on their "holistic admissions process"...

Upromise, a site we like (really like...you could use tools like this if you've got little kids and need to keep saving), talks about the college rankings.

FOR STUDENTS -- a scholarship for blogging? $2000? Check it out here.

Great blog -- and a great resource for anyone in the going-to-college process!

Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization -- uSphere speaks at their National Conference

Want to study entrepreneurship in college? Start, maybe, with a few of the schools who sent representatives to CEO -- Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization -- and their annual conference, held this weekend in Chicago. (Which is home of the President-Elect. We need to throw that in.)

Here's a hypothesis: schools that send kids to this conference are likely to have entrepreneurship as part of the mix on campus.

So, a not-so-scientific listing of schools who represented:

Bradley. Great idea for their students to all wear red shirts.
Santa Clara University. In the Valley, so good location for startups.
TCU. Clever purple shirts that said "tcuceo" on them.
IIT. Illinois Institute of Technology. Got to give them props -- they were everywhere and they were the ones who got us on the dias. (Well, them AND GrubHub.)
Northern Kentucky. They actually exhibited, and their (garish) black-and-yellow shirts meant they stood out.

I've left a few more schools out, too, and invite you to comment if you were there...

BTW - Rather than bore you with the details of the uSphere speech at the CEO conference yesterday, here's a link to my notes.

uSphere jumps on the Presidential Bandwagon with (selected) Alma Maters of the Presidents

Riding a wave of 44 poseurism, uSphere is happy to share some random, off-the-cuff, facts about Presidents' alma maters. And other stuff.

Barack Obama - you know by now that he graduated from Columbia. Did you know he started at Occidental? That there's another Columbia, Columbia College Chicago, that is within blocks of Grant Park, where "44" spoke last night? (Yet another Columbia in Missouri, no connection to the President-elect.)

George W. Bush, George Bush - both went to Yale for undergrad.

Bill Clinton - though he's from my Mom's home state of Arkansas, he went to Georgetown.

Ronald Reagan - Eureka College. It's in Eureka, Illinois. Do check them out - Dutch's lasting legacy has really, really had a positive impact on hundreds of students' lives.

Jimmy Carter - US Naval Academy.

What about some of the other folks connected to the President-elect?

Joe Biden - the future VP did his undergrad at the University of Delaware. Nickname? The Blue Hens, a breed of chicken. (This isn't about post-graduate degrees, but did you know that Joe Biden has a Law Degree from Syracuse?! Good to get the Orange connected to the White House.

Michelle Obama - future First Lady went to Princeton.

Craig Robinson - Michelle's brother. Now head basketball coach at Oregon State.

Today Show Forgets to Mention uSphere During Discussion of Credit Crunch and Colleges

We're not mad -- big fans of the Today Show and did enjoy the piece about getting into, going to, and PAYING FOR college in these crazy modern times.

Some things that they mentioned that we liked:

Community Colleges. Matt Lauer: "I think community colleges get a bad rap." (We linked to one in the Chicago burbs above.) Great entry point into four-year schools; one of the interviewees, from Kaplan, said that the Cal-Berkeley system uses Community Colleges as a proving ground.

Look for the lower-cost option. Students shouldn't be price shopping, but they'll have to in a lot of cases in order to get into an affordable school. Here's a thought: instead of those really expensive liberal arts schools in Ohio, like Oberlin or Kenyon, take a look at Mr. Lauer's alma mater, Ohio University. We've linked to it above.

Go before you go. AP credits or other courses can cut your 4-year degree down to 3. University of Nebraska-Lincoln has an Independent Study High School. We like.

Oh, and check out a tool such as uSphere and our college finder. Save time when looking.