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McDaniel: A College That Changes Lives
In 1996, Loren Pope, former education editor of The New York Times, published "Colleges That Change Lives," a guidebook that celebrates colleges outside the Ivy League for their proven ability to teach students and help them realize their potential.
Despite their lack of widespread name recognition, Pope contends that colleges like McDaniel serve students with a wide range of abilities and produce higher proportions of scientists, scholars and people who wind up in Who’s Who than those who take only a fraction of the "A" students. "That’s a good story and significant to smart consumers concerned about their futures in a fast-changing world, " says Pope in the book’s introductions.
For the eighth time in as many years, this unique group of 40 liberal arts colleges is on the road to collectively deliver their special message nationwide to prospective students and their families.
This year's tour will hold events in New York City, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, and other cities across the U.S. Please click here for more information and dates.
Pope, who has written two other higher education guides, looked for colleges that "develop people who can land on their feet whether they are strong, intellectual students, or those needing tender loving care." So long as they have a desire to learn, he says.
The selected schools "…will raise trajectories, strengthen skills, double talents, develop value systems, and impart confidence because they do a much different and better job than the Ivies or the universities," he writes in the opening chapter. "They do a better job because faculty and students work closely together, learning is collaborative rather than competitive, students are involved in their own education, there is much discussion of values, and there is a sense of family."
"We are collectively delivering a message about all of these special schools and saying that any one of these institutions will offer a wonderful liberal arts experience," said Martha O'Connell, dean of admissions at McDaniel.
For more tour information visit the "Colleges That Change Lives" Web site at http://ctcl.com. |
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