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Washington & Jefferson College (W&J) has been recognized for exceptional quality and value with significant placements in national rankings by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and U.S. News & World Report (USN&WR), among other leading publications.
The WSJ this month published its 2024 list of “Best Colleges in the U.S.,” ranking W&J No. 105 among colleges and universities of all sizes, both public and private. “The ranking emphasizes how much a college improves its students’ chances of graduating on time, and how much it boosts the salaries they earn after graduation,” said the publication, which also ranked W&J at or near the top 15 percent nationwide for Salary Impact (No. 67) and Social Mobility (No. 60).
The WSJ methodology weighs factors including salary impact, years to pay off net price, graduation rates, career preparation, learning facilities, recommendations, and ethnic and socio-economic diversity. Click here to read the full article on our…

In a time when private liberal arts schools are struggling to keep their doors open, Graceland University enrolled its largest incoming class since the fall of 2015.

Cadence Sires is a freshman from Johnston, Iowa, who came to Graceland as a golfer and dancer. Until her senior year, she was planning to go to a state university but chose Graceland because she could dance, play golf, and still be in the choir. She was also drawn to Graceland-s new Transformational Leadership major, a second major that all 4-year undergraduates receive in addition to their disciplinary major.

-The classes for transformational leadership - I was totally on board,- she said. -These are great skills to have. Employers are always looking for potential employees that have leadership qualities, and the way you can just [add] that onto your degree and say -I-ve learned all these skills and will be a valuable employee for you.--

Cadence-s mother, Kacie Sires, graduated from Graceland in 1999 and works at…

Linfield University is the No. 1 liberal arts college or university in Oregon, according to Washington Monthly-s 2023 College Guide and Rankings, and No. 9 in the nation for earnings performance.

Washington Monthly ranks four-year schools based on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories: social mobility, research and providing opportunities for public service. The university jumped in the national overall ranking 54, up from last year-s No. 66 and 2021-s 112th spot.

Linfield was also included in Washington Monthly-s 2023 Best Bang for the Buck in the West. This specialized list ranks schools according to -how well they help non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices.-

Other accolades from the magazine include:


Top 20 liberal arts college in nation for participation in AmeriCorps and The Peace Corps (No. 17)
Top 100 in social mobility (No. 70)

The full rankings can be found at…

August 28, 2023 - Marist has once again been recognized as one of the nation's Best Colleges in the latest survey from Money, a personal finance digital platform. The rating features a comprehensive evaluation of four-year institutions, focusing on educational quality, affordability, and student achievement.

Marist has consistently received recognition from the publication for being among the colleges that provide the best value, highlighting an exceptional education that equips students for successful careers and tuition at an affordable cost. The latest comprehensive Marist profile by Money can be found here.

Marist enhances affordability through a diverse range of financial aid opportunities. 90% of Marist students receive some form of financial assistance. The President-s Fund for Equity in the Marist Experience supports internships, attachment programs such as courses that include a travel component, and individual tutoring. Awards are intended for undergraduates where…

A new ranking by the Wall Street Journal recognizes the quality and value of an Ohio Northern University education. ONU is ranked No. 33 in the nation and No. 1 in Ohio for -salary impact- by the WSJ/College Pulse 2024 Best Colleges in the U.S. According to the rankings, salary impact -measures the extent to which a college boosts its graduates- salaries beyond what they would be expected to earn regardless of which college they attended.- ONU is also highly rated in the publication-s overall ranking of the top 400 universities in the country. ONU is No. 96 in the country and second in the Buckeye State. Ohio State is the next highest ranked university in Ohio coming in at No. 222. -This latest ranking is a reflection of the work our faculty and staff do every day to provide a high-impact learning experience and support our students,- said ONU President Melissa J. Baumann, Ph.D. -It affirms what our students, families, and alumni already know: an ONU education is a great value that…

Paul Smiths, NY - The Paul Smith-s College-s Visitors Interpretive Center (VIC) announced the completion of a Forest Megaphone on its accessible Barnum Brook Trail. The Forest Megaphone, an oversized wooden megaphone large enough for adults to sit or laydown in, amplifies surrounding natural noise for those seeking a deeper sensory experience in the outdoors. The VIC hopes the Forest Megaphone will prompt guests to focus on their soundscape (the combined sounds present at a location) and create a new way to interact with and appreciate nature.

The installation was the final phase of a student capstone project by recent graduate Tyler Roszman and overseen by Paul Smith-s College Professor, Dr. Melanie Johnson. -It was a pleasure working with Tyler on his capstone project. Paul Smith-s College specializes in experiential learning, and it was wonderful to see a student develop, design, and complete a real-life project,- said Dr. Johnson.

The location was selected after exhaustive…

Albion College is one of only four private colleges and universities in Michigan to be included on the list of Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 Best Colleges in the U.S.

Albion ranked second among private colleges in Michigan and 68 out of all 400 colleges and universities included in the rankings of public and private schools. The University of Detroit Mercy (52), Kalamazoo College (141) and Andrews University (382) were the other private Michigan schools included.

Three factors were considered in the rankings: student outcomes (70% of the ranking), the learning environment (20%) and diversity (10%).

Students who participated in the ranking survey gave Albion high marks for diversity and for learning opportunities, including the College-s myriad experiential learning offerings.

You can find the complete rankings here.

Albion College is an undergraduate, liberal arts institution committed to academic excellence. We are learning-centered and recognize that valuable…

The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse ranks University of Detroit Mercy among the top institutions of higher education in the United States for 2024, according to results released Sept. 6.

This year, UDM was ranked No. 52, making it:


Michigan-s second highest-ranking university on the list.
Fourth among Catholic institutions, behind only Georgetown University, Boston College and University of Notre Dame.
The third-highest ranked Jesuit university and only Mercy institution ranked.
41 out of 196 private universities included in the rankings.

-This is a tremendous honor not just for our University, but for our students and alumni who do great work on our campuses, in their field and communities,- said UDM President Donald B. Taylor. -It is truly gratifying to be recognized for the determination and commitment of our faculty, staff and entire University family in working to help our students and community achieve success.-

UDM also ranked well in the three…

Allegheny College has again been named one of the nation-s best institutions for undergraduate education and a best value by The Princeton Review. The education services company features Allegheny in -The Best 388 Colleges,- the 2024 edition of its flagship college guide.

The guidebook notes that the Allegheny campus is -one of the country-s oldest and most dynamic private liberal arts institutions- and a premier college for students with different interests, skills, and talents. The organization also mentions Allegheny as one of the Best Northeastern Colleges.

For its selection of profiled schools, the Princeton Review examines surveys from over 160,000 students, ranking institutions on academics, quality of life, politics, campus life, extracurriculars, and social scenes.

The recognition is the latest in a string of distinctions that highlight Allegheny-s quality and value:


In 2022, U.S. News & World Report named Allegheny one of the top 100 national liberal arts…

Duquesne President Ken Gormley has announced a new initiative to create ongoing support for club sports at Duquesne. Gormley directed that a $1.1 million unrestricted estate gift, provided anonymously by an alumnus, can be used to create an endowment to provide a perpetual funding source for club sports-an activity in which a large segment of Duquesne undergraduate students participates.

An endowment of that size will yield roughly $45,000 per year, in perpetuity, to support the 14 club sports at the University. The goal, Gormley stated, is to broaden that endowment over time through additional gifts and donations to expand its impact even further.

Large numbers of students participate in club sports at the University. Duquesne club sports include baseball, field hockey, ice hockey, men-s and women-s lacrosse, men-s and women-s soccer, swimming, tennis, track, women-s volleyball and wrestling.

-Duquesne students are actively engaged in athletic clubs,- said Gormley. -Our…

Aidan Webster strode onto the sand of Eckerd College-s South Beach and turned to face an audience of several dozen people eager to see if he could really do it. Wearing shorts, a flowered shirt and the look of a gathering storm, he checked twice to make sure the counters, witnesses and videographers were all in place and ready. When you-re trying to break three Guinness World Records, all within one hour, those people are crucial.
After a brief warmup, he began to juggle three rubber balls. The crowd inched closer. -This is the most difficult record for me to break,- he said to the group. And then he grinned. -I-m trying to build suspense.-

A half hour earlier inside the McArthur Physical Education Center, Aidan, a rising junior marine science student from Trappe, Pennsylvania, had broken the world record for one-handed juggling while hanging by one arm from a bar. Now, on a warm mid-July evening, he would attempt to break the world record for most consecutive backflips in one…

The history of Hip-Hop in the City of Raleigh includes the contributions of several Saint Augustine-s University (SAU) alumni. Last month, nearly a third of the City of Raleigh Museum-s 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop Celebration honorees were SAU alumni and former students.

-The impact of the hip-hop genre on HBCUs like SAU is undeniable and is intertwined with our cultural relevance. I want to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt congratulations to our esteemed alumni who were honored during the City of Raleigh Museum-s 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Celebration,- said SAU President Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail. -Their dedication, talent, and contributions to Hip Hop undoubtedly deserve this recognition, and we are incredibly proud of their accomplishments.-

The City of Raleigh Museum honored the past, present, and future of Hip Hop for its 50th anniversary. On August 12, the museum hosted a panel discussion with Hip Hop DJs, promoters, and scholars about the genre-s Southern…

Ohio Wesleyan Student's OWU Connection Trip Shows the Power of Living in Language
Name: Graci Semptimphelter -26Hometown: Franklin, TennesseeHigh School: Battle Ground AcademyMajors: Business Administration (Management Concentration) and SpanishOWU Connection Experience: Travel-Learning Course, -SPAN 226 - Spanish Immersion and Walking El Camino de Santiago- in Galicia, Spain

Semptimphelter traveled to Spain for two weeks this summer with current OWU classmates Kelly Farran -25, Emma Foster -26, Brooke Lenigan -25, and Grace Mahoney -24 to complete a Travel-Learning Course with professors of Spanish Eva Paris-Huesca, Ph.D., and Andrea Colvin, Ph.D.

-Eva Paris-Huesca and Andrea Colvin were incredible mentors on this trip,- Semptimphelter says. -They were so patient, helpful, and fun! I loved that they were on this trip with us.-

During the Travel-Learning Course, the group immersed themselves in Spanish culture by exploring its history, art, culture, language, and food, as…

For any aspiring business reporter, earning an internship with the Dow Jones News Fund would be a promising start to a career in journalism. Founded by editors of the Wall Street Journal, the prestigious media training program provides college and graduate students around the country with paid newsroom internships and has been coveted for over 60 years. But for recipient Shaheer Naveed (SF23), who spent this past summer at Albuquerque Business First, the achievement crowned a long-and at times challenging-journey.

Naveed, a top student at his high school in Pakistan, completed news internships at organizations like social research giant Gallup and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) while still in his teens. When it came time for college, a guidance counselor steered him toward studying abroad in the United States. Naveed decided on St. John-s College in Santa Fe, but he struggled while adjusting to his new surroundings.

-I don-t know how to sugarcoat…

Lycoming College welcomed first-year and transfer students during the New Student Convocation on Aug. 24. In keeping with a long-held tradition, students marched through the David B Sykes Gate to mark the beginning of their academic year. Student Senate officers and Chip Edmonds, Ed.D. -98, executive vice president, then led the group through campus to Lamade Gymnasium where faculty, staff, family, and friends joined in celebration and recognition.

The Class of 2027 is comprised of 300 new students. They are a diverse group as 28 percent of the class are domestic students of color. Nearly half reside outside of Pennsylvania, including 16 different states and eight countries from around the world. Twenty-two percent follow in the footsteps of many alumni as first-generation college students, and 19 students are legacies whose parents are alumni of the institution. More than 20 percent of the Class ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school classes, and 139 are student-athletes…

For J. Scott Spinner, BS -65, Ohio Northern University will always be positively associated with his love of music and the very special love of his life, his wonderful wife of 57 years, Cheryl (Kennedy) Spinner, BSPh -66.

Spinner recently honored his late wife and their shared connection to ONU and the ONU Marching Band by establishing three endowed funds. His donation supports ONU-s Forward Together campaign, which seeks to raise $100 million for student scholarships, teaching and learning excellence, facilities, and the Northern Fund.

To assist ONU students who have financial need, Spinner set up the Cheryl (Kennedy) Spinner Endowed Pharmacy Scholarship and the J. Scott and Cheryl Spinner Marching Band Scholarship. Plus, to provide financial support to ONU-s Marching Band, the -Star of Northwest Ohio,- he established the J. Scott Spinner Endowed Marching Band Program Fund.

-We are grateful that Scott chose to honor in such a beautiful way his late wife and their shared…

Roanoke College and Virginia Western Community College have created a new program, Rapid Maroons, that will provide a direct path to Roanoke College for students who choose to begin their post-secondary education at Virginia Western.

Roanoke College President Frank Shushok Jr. and Virginia Western President Robert Sandel will meet to sign the agreement on Tuesday, Sept. 5 at 2 p.m. at Fishburn Hall, first floor, on the Virginia Western Community College campus.

The Rapid Maroons Program is designed for students who are accepted to Roanoke but choose, for a variety of reasons, to start their college careers at Virginia Western, as well as those who do not initially meet academic requirements for admission to Roanoke College. The agreement will allow those students to make progress in their intended Roanoke College major during their time at Virginia Western. It will also give them access to joint advising services and student activities at Roanoke College while they are studying…

For nearly 3 decades, Albion College and the Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture have collaborated to extend Albion-s campus and create transformative student learning experiences in Chicago. Building on this ongoing partnership, Albion College has signed an agreement with the Chicago Center to begin managing The Philadelphia Center starting this fall.

The Philadelphia Center, reimagined through a partnership with the Chicago Center, integrates urban living, academic study, and professional development with every student-s experience.

Beginning spring 2024, students will have the opportunity to enroll in The Philadelphia Center-s Internship Program. Course credit will continue to be provided through Albion College. The Philadelphia Center will offer internship programs in the summer, fall, and spring semesters. You can learn more at The Philadelphia Center-s website.

As interest in cultural intelligence and internship programs on college campuses has increased, the…

Ohio Wesleyan Student Completes Research Tied to Intel-s Semiconductor Manufacturing
Name: Niladri Deb -25Hometown: Mumbai, IndiaHigh school: Dhirubhai Ambani International SchoolMajors: Astrophysics and Computer ScienceMinor: MathematicsOWU Connection Experience: Working as a student research assistant at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio

Deb spent his summer working on Intel-related nanotechnology research through the Ohio 5-OSU Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program at The Ohio State University. Intel is building a $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing site in central Ohio, which is expected to open in 2025.

In addition to Deb, Ohio Wesleyan students Gia Hailu -24, Coleman Kegler -25, and Spencer Yates -24 also completed independent summer research at Ohio State. It was Deb-s second consecutive summer working at OSU, having completed a 2022 summer research internship in Bioinformatics and Statistical Physics.

My Job Duties
-I was working on…

Wentworth Mechanical Engineering students pose with their drone prototype (courtesy photo)

A team from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Wentworth Institute of Technology won an honorable mention during the recent Transportation Research Board-s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) design competition.

Competing in the Airport Operation and Maintenance category, Wentworth students Eleonora Orfanini, Massimiliano Orfanini, Km Ashik, Chris Alcantara, and Emily Stevers examined -Enhancing Airport Runway Safety with UAV Technology and Convolutional Neural Networks for Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Detection.- Wentworth Professor Haifa El-Sadi served as faculty adviser.

Now in its 17th year, the prestigious University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs encourages students to design innovative and practical solutions to challenges at airports.

The Wentworth team design was reviewed by a panel of experts from the Federal Aviation Administration,…

There are few employees at Alma College who talk to as many people on a given day as Phil Andre.

As director of student success at Alma, Andre leads a team of three dedicated staff members who help students navigate challenges they face on their journeys in higher education.

In one instance, Andre might be speaking with a faculty member about a student dealing with academic troubles, and connecting that student with a tutor. In another, he might talk to a resident adviser, an athletics coach, a diversity and inclusion specialist - the list just goes on.

-Selfishly, it-s a little bit of fun, because I get to hear from people on campus every day who have different expertises, and the level of talent we have here at Alma is really incredible,- Andre said. -Beyond that, I think my schedule really illustrates what we try to do here at Alma, which is to teach the whole person.

-When you teach the whole person, you become more keenly aware of the challenges they face. When you…

Crews broke ground near South Beach at Eckerd College in August to construct two long-awaited projects to enhance campus: the Tim Scovanner -11 Pavilion and a full beach volleyball facility, yet to be named.
The Scovanner Pavilion-a 2,160-square-foot, concrete, open-air structure with 115 photovoltaic solar panels-will replace the wooden recreation pavilion located between Kappa Field and South Beach. The project began in earnest in 2020 after Doug, Mary and Jill Scovanner decided to contribute $1.3 million to honor their son and brother, respectively, Tim Scovanner -11, who passed away in 2016.

Architectural rendering of the new beach volleyball courts

-Tim-s Eckerd experience was shaped by its vital community-friends, faculty, classes and time spent on the waterfront,- the Scovanner family said. -It is our hope the pavilion will become a place of gathering, sharing, fun and support for all of the Eckerd community past, present and future.-

Work on the $2.3 million pavilion…

Clutching paperback copies of Euclid-s Elements and Confucius-s The Analects, new students in Santa Fe and Annapolis participated in an annual college tradition-Convocation, a formal celebration welcoming them to the St. John-s community-on Thursday, August 24.

-You have joined a community of learners who wrestle with bold and radical ideas,- said Santa Fe President Mark Roosevelt in a public ceremony on the school-s Weigle Placita. -We do our work with honesty tempered by civility. Those values-honesty, a commitment to rigorous searching, civility, respect, and openness to the ideas of others-these are values that are largely lost in America today, and certainly in our public dialogue. They are also mostly missing in American higher education, but they have a home-and will always have a home-at St. John-s College.-

-And now,- he concluded, -you have a home here as well.-

Among those now calling St. John-s Santa Fe home are 92 undergraduates hailing from 26 U.S. states and…