Last week the Boston Globe ran an interesting article about my alma mater Boston University: BU to launch $1.8b plan to expand, upgrade faculty.

Yep, that's right faculty.

$1.8 billion.

Wow, the times, they are a changin'. Under the previous leadership the university had been, well, let's say a little greedy. I mean, how many college kids can say they live in a dorm that has corporate sponsorship?

Seriously.

Although I really wish they'd renamed it "Manulife Financial Student Village" after the John Hancock / Manulife merger in 2004. What'd that be abbreviated to, the "ManuliStuVi"?

But this time instead of building well, even more buildings they're out to improve the other infrastructure with a plan to add 150 professors, and to pay them more. The plan is to cut the overall student-to-faculty ratio from 14 to 1 to 9 to 1.

"It's moving Boston University to be in that list of the elite, large, private research universities of America, an NYU, a Penn, a Northwestern," President Robert Brown said. "We'll do it by investing in faculty, students, and programs."

All joking aside, that's pretty cool.

Still not going to donate, though.