Top Affordable Colleges in America

Wall Street Journal's Smart Money just released a list of top affordable colleges in America

1. Cooper Union (Free Tuition)

Runner Up: Curtis Institute of Music, City University of New York Macaulay Honors College, Deep Springs College (all-male).

2. University of Pennsylvania (No-Loans College)

Runner Up: Boston University (for income-eligible students who graduate from Boston's public schools); Rice University (for families with income of $80,000 or less); Vanderbilt University (for all students receiving need-based aid).

3. University of Florida (Bargains for In-State Residents)

Runner Up: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (around $6,700 per year in tuition and fees); University of Texas at Austin ($10,400); University of Washington ($12,600).

Another Donation For USC - $110 Million!!!

This just in... The Mork family has donated a historic gift to USC, in the form of $110 million. Announced on the USC's official website, this is the largest sum of donation in USC undergraduate scholarships history. The USC Mork Family Scholars Program is aimed towards incoming freshmen and are awarded based on academic merit. It runs similarly to the USC Trustee and Presidential Scholars programs. Recipients have to maintain at least a 3.5 GPA and will enjoy the same benefits offered to Trustee and Presidential Scholars, including residence in the residential college for honors students and special programming throughout the academic year.

Did USC just get $200 million, $15 million and now $110 million in the last 2 months or so? So basically I go to the best school in the history of the universe! Fight on! 

USC Hires New Professors

According to the official USC website,

Lord John Eatwell, a well-known British economist, member of the House of Lords, and president of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Lady Eatwell (known professionally as Suzi Digby) an acclaimed choral conductor and recipient of the Order of the British Empire for services to music education, have been appointed to the USC faculty for the Fall 2011 semester by president C. L. Max Nikias.

Lord Eatwell will join the faculty of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, where he will teach a graduate course in the Department of Economics on Classical Economic Theory and Its Critics, and an undergraduate course in the School of International Relations on Global Economy 2020. For this latter course he will invite six prominent political figures and experts to give guest lectures on crucial factors and policy issues that will influence global society over the coming decade.

Suzi Digby (Lady Eatwell) will join the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music, where she will teach an undergraduate course on English Choral Literature with Nick Strimple, a professor of choral music and an acclaimed composer, conductor and scholar. In addition to teaching, she will be involved with a variety of artistic and educational endeavors within USC Thornton.

So, for those that are still taking courses next semester, sign up!