NATIONAL TOUR FEATURES "COLLEGES THAT CHANGE LIVES"
Marlboro, Vt. -- Marlboro College in Vermont announced this week that it will join 32 other small, progressive liberal arts schools in a national tour targeting ten selected cities from Boston to Seattle to collectively recruit students interested in taking roads less travelled.
This August and September, the "Colleges That Change Lives Tour" will offer high school seniors across the country a chance to meet representatives from the colleges featured in the book "Colleges That Change Lives," written by former New York Times Education Editor Loren Pope (Penguin Books, 1996).
Loren Pope, former education journalist, education administrator and director of the College Placement Bureau, spent more than four decades of experience in higher education identifying the top colleges that develop the qualities needed "to see opportunities in a changing world and to be smart and resourceful enough to act on them."
He looked for colleges that "develop people who can land on their feetówhether they are strong, intellectual students, or those needing tender loving careóbecause they encourage a strong sense of community and interaction among students and teachers."
"There's something about Marlboro," said Tanya Tabachnikoff, Director of Media Relations for the 300-student southern Vermont college, "that is hard to define, but it inspires its students to make things happen. Marlboro students believe in themselves. They enjoy their uniqueness and take great satisfaction from their power to make changes both in themselves and in the world around them."
With 300 students, a seven-to-one student-faculty ratio, no teaching assistants, no fraternities, and no majors, Marlboro does seem aptly described as "a college unlike any other."
Marlboro College Director of Admissions Kate Hallas said the two- week tour will try to reach out to students who want to attend a college "with something truly different to offer students." She points out that the only other New England colleges in the tour are Hampshire College and Clark University.
The tour will be divided into two phases. The West coast portion of the tour will begins on August 1 in San Francisco and will visit Los Angeles (August 2), Portland (August 3), Seattle (August 4), and Denver (August 5).
The East coast tour will start on September 12 in Chicago and will move on to Boston on September 13 (The Westin Hotel in Watham from 5 to 9 p.m.), New York on September 14, Washington, D.C. area on September 15, and will conclude in Atlanta, Ga. on September 16.
For more information, students and families may call the admissions tourcoordinating office at Marlboro College (www.marlboro.edu) in Vermont: 1-800-343-0049.
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Contacts:
Paul LeBlanc, President 802-258-9245 [email protected]
Kate Hallas, Director of Admissions 802-258-9237 [email protected]
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