Road Trip: "Aha! Moments" at Union College
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Schenectady may not be a magnet city for college students, but Union College is embraced as home for 2,200 undergraduates
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Road Trip: “Aha! Moments” at Northeastern University
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Northeastern University is truly unique among the 50-plus colleges in Boston. It follows that Northeastern’s 13,000 undergraduate students are also unique
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha! Moments" at Tufts University
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Just five miles or 15 minutes from Boston and a 5 minute “T” ride from Cambridge, Tufts’ feel is more urban than college town.
Read MoreRoad Trip: “Aha! Moments” at Bentley University
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My tour of universities in the Boston area included Bentley University in Waltham, MA a suburb nine miles outside of Boston. Bentley is known as a business school,
Read MoreRoad Trip: “Aha! Moments” at Boston College and Boston University
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I will no longer confuse Boston College and Boston University! They are truly distinct and similarities are not apparent.
Read MoreRoad Trip: “Aha! Moments” at Wellesley College
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This month’s Boston area campus touring included a brief but informative stop at Wellesley College. Having lived in the city of Wellesley I well remember
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha! Moments" at Franklin W. Olin School of Engineering and Babson College
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Our tour guide confirmed, “the dorms at Olin are closer to Babson’s buildings than our own” — “Aha!”
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha! Moment" at Reed College
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Last stop on my tour of colleges in Washington and Oregon was Reed College; regardless of one’s perspective, it is well known. My “aha! moment” at Reed: one can’t trust what one reads
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha! Moment" at The Evergreen State College
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With close to 2,500 four-year colleges in the US, I confidently tell students and families that there is a college for everyone. My aha! moment at The Evergreen State College was taking that statement out of the theoretical and experiencing it first hand.
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha Moments" at Lewis & Clark College
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A brief stop on the road trip, but well worth it. Lewis & Clark College is just six miles from downtown Portland something they were quick to point out and clearly enjoy. At roughly 2,100 undergrad students, I was surprised to find three separate but adjacent campuses
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha! Moment" at the University of Puget Sound
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On my recent road trip through Washington and Oregon, The University of Puget Sound was one of three schools visited that are identified as Colleges That Change Lives (CTCL) — a rarified group of forty schools anointed by Loren Pope in his book of the same name
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha! Moments" at the University of Oregon
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University of Oregon Ducks’ football is formidable…and their uniforms cutting edge, but the Aha! was the prevalence of athleticism at UO. Everything about the campus’ atmosphere was fast paced.
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha! Moments" at Whitman College
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Well over half the miles driven on my Washington / Oregon West Coast Road Trip were going to and from Walla Walla, Washington in order to see Whitman College. I learned that everything about Whitman is intentional
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha! Moments" at the University of Washington, Seattle
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Early Spring is an ideal time to visit half a dozen schools in Washington and Oregon. Eighty-five degrees and sunny throughout my April trip - likely not typical Pacific Northwest weather – underscored the region’s beauty in all its glory. Curiosity about the University of Washington’s Honors Program instigated the trip.
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha! Moments" at the University of Southern California
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As a UCLA graduate I somewhat grudgingly share USC’s remarkable attributes. The most significant “aha” is their commitment to teach adaptability and provide a breadth of perspective because “the jobs of tomorrow do not exist today”.
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha! Moments" at Cal Poly, SLO
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California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo is the third most selective public school in the state of California (after UC Berkeley and UCLA); an “aha” compounded by the fact that Cal Poly’s admission process is the antithesis of most selective schools.
Read MoreRoad Trip: “Aha! Moments” at Santa Clara University
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Time to look at some “local” California schools this winter. Here are “aha moments” from Santa Clara University.
Read MoreRoad Trip: “Aha! Moments” at Westmont College
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Time to look at some “local” California schools this winter. Here is my “aha moment” from Westmont College, 111 acres nestled in the hills above Santa Barbara.
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha Moments" at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Just returned from a swing through the Midwest visiting colleges. Here is my “aha moment” from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Read MoreRoad Trip: "Aha Moments" at the University of Notre Dame
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Just finished visiting six colleges in the Midwest. Here are my “aha moments” from the University of Notre Dame.
