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More Good College News Sites

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More Good College News Sites

Jul 24, 2003By Voltaire Santos Miran

It’s true: I didn’t look hard enough last time. Here are some other college and university news sites with interesting strategies:

Try Bates College, which has just 1,738 students, for an antidote to the slow-summer blues. Bates’s news site piques and maintains reader interest with timeless features, including the ongoing Faces of Bates feature. 

Also try Ball State University in sleepy Muncie, Indiana for tips on keeping a news center alive during the summer. One of BSU’s strategies: Put professors whose expertise intersects with national events and trends front and center.

In Louisiana, you’ll find a more in-depth approach to national news: Tulane University’s robust news site offers a list of experts related to a top-of-mind national news story—very handy for journalists looking for sources, and very interesting for those of us who are news junkies (and also college-site junkies). This week it was “post-war Iraq.”

Of course the University of Colorado appears to have a big staff-I counted eight people, including the administrative assistantbut you can’t deny these folks credit for doing a nice job. In particular, check out the News in Depth area, which offers stories, tributes, and special reports-some of which seem to intersect with current national news. 

I’m still looking…


  • Voltaire Santos Miran EVP, Web Strategy I've developed and implemented communication strategies in education for more than 20 years now. I think my team at mStoner is the smartest, funniest, and coolest group of colleagues ever, and I can't imagine being anywhere else. Except Barcelona. Or Paris. Or Istanbul. To quote Isak Dinesen, "the cure for everything is salt ... tears, sweat, and the sea."