SF News Mayor London Breed Hopes to Lure Historically Black Colleges to Downtown SF With New Program On Friday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a plan to begin offering summer classes through historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the city, and the intention of luring at least one of those HBCUs to establish a satellite campus downtown.
SF News Forbes Top Colleges 2012: Stanford Wins Bronze, Princeton Takes Gold Forbes annual list of Best Institutes for Higher Learning and Contact Making came out today. The coveted list, compiled by Forbes and Washington, D.C.'s Center for College Affordability and Productivity, focuses
SF News University of California Schools Seeing A Gold Rush Of Out Of State Tuition The cash-strapped UC system has started shifting the balance of admitted students to better favor profitable out-of-state applicants, UC officials reported today. In addition to accepting a record high 80,289 freshman to
SF News Santa Clara University Better Than UC Berkeley, Says Forbes According to Forbes Magazine, Gavin Newsom's alma mater is a better place for higher education than UC Berkeley. NBC Bay Area notes: "Santa Clara University received its highest-ever ranking from Forbes's 2011 list
misc Week Around the -ists Torontoist spent its week uncovering who was behind mysterious ads for a drug called "Obay" that popped up across the country (Scientology? Frank Shepard Fairey?), first tracing them to an advocacy group called
SF News Oh You Should Totally Vote! It Looks Good on You. Oh is it a voting day or something? It totally sneaked up on us! It still feels like Monday today. Actually it also feels like October. Anyway, you should probably vote yes on
misc Lookout Behind You! Bisexuality Is On The Rise! ...sexual intercourse is becoming less about reproduction and more about affection. He said that shift could, within three generations, cause more people to identify as bisexual. Activists and bisexuals are, of course, soiling
misc Week Around the -ists With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even
misc Wossamotta U? The Latest U.S. News College List Hey, everyone loves a list, right? Especially those ranking institutions of higher learning. The yearly U.S. News & World Report list is out -- any wagers on how local schools did? And,
Arts & Entertainment MANicure Madness We got in the car and headed over to our favorite, most reliable salon, where the instruments are clean, the prices can’t be beat, and there’s always some funny Asian soap
misc Charter School Scandal Uprep was intended to serve disadvantaged students and put them on a college preparatory path, but the school has been hit hard by cheating scandals as of late -- earlier in the month,
SF News SF Almost the Best Place for Yuppies Coming in at a respectable number two, Forbes Magazine named San Francisco the second best spot to park your yuppie ass. As if you didn’t already know that. (Although we’re puzzled
SF News Son Of BART Employee Wins Spelling Bee! And the Bay Area dominates your reality TV scene YET AGAIN!!! Danville's own Evan O'Dorney, sponsored by the proud-as-punch Contra Costa Times, wins this year's spelling bee on the word "serrefine," which is
misc That Fake Stanford Student Today's article reveals that Azia Kim's friends from high school all thought she was going to one of those community colleges that feeds into Berkeley, but when she came back at Christmas break
SF News It's Got to Be the (Mid) Morning After Pacers 108 Warriors 106: In detailing the game, the Chron's Janny Hu actually uses the word "upset" to describe the Warriors loss. Now when was the last time those words have ever been
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "The Ivy League Hotelier and The Match-up Solution" * Picked round 7, pick 47; 455 overall / Kevin McMahan / WR / Maine / 6'2" / 196 / "Mr. Irrelevant" * Picked round 7, pick 6; 214 overall / Chris Morris / C / Michigan State / 6'4" / 305 / "The Heady Snapper" * Picked
SF News Beware the Three Seed On Saturday, the Cardinal absolutely handled number two seed Oklahoma 88-74 behind a Walton-like performance from 6-4 junior center Brooke Smith. Smith poured in 35 points on 14 of 16 shooting. She also
SF News Hey, Navy: Leave Our Kids Alone The resolution, natch is non-binding and merely puts the city on record as opposing military recruitment. Schools merely have a choice on whether or not to follow it but as federal funds are
SF News What Big Game? It's the Big Game this weekend! Tips on how to take that wacky "BART" train to "the East Bay" are exchanged, history is retold, anecdotes about marching band and intra-school antics are fondly
SF News You're So Money, Baby SFist is shocked to see that we failed for the 31st year in a row to make the Forbes list of the top 400 richest people in America. Much like those US News