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4 Reasons College Campus Visits Are a Waste of Time & Money

Great College Advice

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.

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Alumni Perspective: Favorite Part of Taking Classes Abroad with AIFS

AIFS Abroad

When you study abroad , in-classroom learning is often accompanied by experiential learning. 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. AIFS in Granada, Spain ( Study Abroad + Internship Program ), Spring 2019.

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Boost Higher Ed Enrollment and Graduation Rates – The Power of Student Support and Belonging: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 148 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Elliot Felix

The Change Leader, Inc.

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.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. This idea was brought to the American colonies largely by graduates from Cambridge and Edinburgh.