Great College Advice

JULY 1, 2023

College libraries are important centers of the campus. In the 21st century, what is a college library for, anyway? Not too long ago, there was a major ethnographic study of how college students actually use libraries for research and learning demonstrated the degree to which students make use of libraries and librarians: not much.

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Libraries Mining Architecture Consulting 130

Clark Nesxen

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Clark Nexsen’s Combustion Chamber serves as a vehicle to fuel experimentation and discovery within the professional realm of architectural design. Library (in collaboration with Snøhetta). Dorothea Dix Park, located just outside of downtown Raleigh, features sweeping views of the city skyline.

Architecture 98

Architecture Libraries Higher Education Research 98

Great College Advice

JULY 21, 2023

I’m here just kind of outside the library in a little courtyard, the azaleas are in bloom, and students are packed in the library right now studying for finals. Architecturally speaking, this campus is one of those harmonious campuses, all in gray brick. It’s just absolutely stunning.

Financial Aid 130

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 2, 2023

While my colleagues and I have done hundreds of campus visits as a way to research colleges, our families are embarking on these adventures for the first time. Or academically non-selective schools that emphasize their academic research programs (“seriously, lots of kids participate in this program”). The gee-whiz videos.

Admissions 246

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

That vocabulary must be challenging, so that it provokes new thinking, but it must not be overly technical or oriented towards engineering or architectural concerns. Space begins with walking through the main doors, the café, the social spaces, the library and of course the formal learning spaces. What might this look like?

Computers and Informational Technology 52

Computers and Informational Technology Development and Fund Raising Research Engineering 52

The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

These experiences and national research studies revealed that students who feel like they belong on campus are about 40% more likely to continue after their freshmen year. Then I found a unique company – it was as if a management consultancy and an architecture firm had a baby. What we would do was write design briefs. Tell us more.

Marketing and Communication Services 52

Marketing and Communication Services Consulting Support Services Libraries 52

AIFS Abroad

APRIL 16, 2021

This class gave me most of my new friends and forced me out of my comfort zone going into art museums and looking at architecture in a new light. This course allowed me to not only learn more closely about the Berlin Wall and what life was like before, during, and after, but it exposed me to my first field research experience.

Alumni 52

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