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Bird Dog Your College Visit
The official e-newsletter of The Equestrian College Advisor.
From the blog:
Knowledge is power.
Etched on a thousand and one coffee mugs, sprayed over several thousand (million?) t-shirts, and captured poetically on who-knows-how-many of those inspirational sunset-scaped posters, the famed aphorism (often attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, but who really knows?) is frequently batted around in both its English and Latin (“scientia potestas est”) form. We do this to inspire ourselves and those around us and the words ring true because they are true; through the acquisition of information and experience, we gain ability and knowledge and those things give us power.
This is doubly true in the horse world and in the college search. Read More
"The realities of admission loom large and as students head out on visits this summer they can learn a great deal from the political process and what is known as “bird-dogging.”"
"With the
crisis gaining ground as a key issue in the 2020 presidential race, a new
has found that a majority of Americans now believe the value of a
is inextricably tied to whether they have to go into debt to pay for it."
"It’s not your typical horse farm. Spread across 80 acres adjacent to the historic Walthour-Moss Foundation in Southern Pines, the N.C. State Equine Health Center (EHC) is a temporary home for foreign-born horses.
Each year, 10 to 25 horses undergo strict quarantine here for up to 40 days while being tested for contagious equine metritis, or CEM, a highly contagious sexually transmitted infection.
CEM does not occur in the United States and the idea is to keep it that way." Read More
