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Though the sunshine left us after we left the mountain valley following our first tour stop for educational consultants bound for the 2019 fall IECA Conference in Atlanta, the warm welcome we received from the folks at the University of North Carolina Asheville more than made up for it. (Welcome a group of 31 counselors with lunch and they’ll already love you – step up the visit with great information about a wonderful public liberal arts college and they’ll love you more!) Read More

"In a traditional university, students are normally surrounded by well over 15,000+ peers. However, liberal arts colleges are small, intimate, and typically keep enrollment to less than 2,500 total students.

Many liberal arts colleges are widely known, such as those that frequent the US News top 15 liberal arts college listings. However, there are a handful of liberal arts colleges that are on the rise, quickly gaining recognition as being equal to many schools already at the top of most college rankings lists.

So, how did we determine a school as rising?" Read the List

"A small, private higher-education institution in Massachusetts long known as Lasell College recently underwent a subtle but significant transformation: It changed its name. Now the school goes by Lasell 

University

. Its longtime president, Michael B. Alexander, described the new name as “aspirational.” He thinks it better reflects the breadth of the school’s offerings, and hopes the university designation will make it seem more appealing, particularly to international students.

Many

colleges

—often obscure ones of middling selectivity—have 

converted

 to 

universities

 in recent years, seemingly in the hopes of raising their profiles. But whether there’s a material distinction between a college and a university depends on whom you ask—and many people don’t know the difference." 

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"I am sitting in my school counseling office reviewing a high school senior’s college application, and I have asked why there is no mention of the hours he spends at home after school caring for his grandfather.

A look of surprise and encouragement washes over his face and with earnest he exclaims, “You mean that matters?”"

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