Selective Schools Value Elective Choices
University of Rochester: "Selecting only the courses that would be most impressive to a selective admissions committee would be fairly...
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Beth & Tim Manners
Oct 28, 20201 min read
Auburn: 'Urban Studio' Develops Downtown
Bahm Now: "Located in downtown Birmingham, the Auburn University Urban Studio is a teaching & outreach program of Auburn’s College of...
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Apr 21, 20202 min read
College & Careers in the Arts
Vanderbilt: "What you do in college has a surprising impact on your ability to sustain a career in the arts long-term, according to a new...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 28, 20201 min read
Cornell 'College Scholars' Invent Majors
Daily Sun: "From tackling the economics of Uber to diving deep into Latin American politics, the College Scholar students plan to push...
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Jan 9, 20201 min read
Lehigh Plans Business College Expansion
The Morning Call: "A place for young companies to grow. Big data labs. Technological-equipped classrooms that will attract students and...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 8, 20201 min read
Oberlin Transcends Traditional Studies
Crain's Cleveland Business: "Oberlin announced that in fall 2020, it will introduce five new programs of study 'that transcend...
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 5, 20191 min read
Purdue to Build Data-Science Flagship
Purdue: "Purdue University will build a new $40 million facility dedicated to data science, designed to help the university meet its goal...
Beth & Tim Manners
Nov 12, 20192 min read
Pre-Med Majors: Think Outside the Sciences
US News: "When Pre-Meds are comparing and contrasting college majors, they should understand that medical schools admit students with...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jun 26, 20191 min read
When Minor Interests Are Major Studies
CheatSheet: “Don’t you wish you could have studied in The Beatles in college? Believe it or not, majoring in this English rock band is a...
Beth & Tim Manners
May 22, 20192 min read
Goucher Redefines Liberal Arts
Washington Post: “At Goucher College, students no longer need to take a broad range of introductory classes outside their major to...
Beth & Tim Manners
Apr 12, 20192 min read
Traditional Studies are in ‘Major’ Trouble
Axios: “In 1869, at Harvard, Charles Eliot invented the college major as we know it — each student would be channeled into a specialized...
Beth & Tim Manners
Apr 11, 20193 min read
Penn Tour: Be What You Seem, Really
Yes, it exhibits everything one would expect at an “ivy league” school: a grand, bustling green campus, suitably majestic and imposing...
Beth & Tim Manners
Feb 4, 20191 min read
St. Olaf College: A Holistic Health Curriculum
St. Olaf Magazine: “From 2011 to 2016, 75 percent of St. Olaf students who applied to medical school with a cumulative grade point...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 10, 20191 min read
Planetarium is ‘High Point’ at HPU
“The main lobby of the new science building is nearly 50 feet high, topped by a cupola. A hallway leads into the building past big...
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 27, 20181 min read
Major Dilemma: What to Study at College?
US News: “College majors can be conventional, such as business, or off the beaten path. California State University—Fresno, for example,...
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 7, 20181 min read
How to Study for Jobs of the Future?
NPR: “Eighty-five percent of the jobs that today’s students will do in 2030 don’t exist yet, the Institute for the Future has predicted....
Beth & Tim Manners
Oct 16, 20181 min read
MIT Launches Billion-Dollar AI Intitiative
The Verge: “MIT has announced a $1 billion initiative to … establish a new college of computing to train the next generation of machine...
Beth & Tim Manners
Oct 1, 20181 min read
Which Majors Pay Off Biggest?
CBS: “A student’s major as well as their college can make a significant impact on their career earnings, according to a new study from...
Beth & Tim Manners
Aug 16, 20181 min read
Goucher Announces ‘Major’ Cutbacks
Baltimore Sun: “Math majors at Goucher College will soon be a thing of the past. Gone, too, will be physics majors, music majors and...
Beth & Tim Manners
Oct 17, 20171 min read
Ivy League: What Are The Most Popular Majors?
Business Insider: “So what do undergraduates at the eight Ivy League schools like to study? Turns out, it’s surprisingly similar no...
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