Friday, April 26, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
CANTON -- St. Lawrence University has been included in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2016, which selects only 300 schools to profile out of the more than 2,200 four-year colleges in the United States, …
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CANTON -- St. Lawrence University has been included in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2016, which selects only 300 schools to profile out of the more than 2,200 four-year colleges in the United States, Canada and Great Britain.
A leading guidebook for students and parents researching colleges and universities, Fiske Guide to Colleges presents what they consider to be the “best and most interesting” schools during their college search.
The book highlights St. Lawrence’s classical liberal arts education, small classes and team teaching approach, First-Year Program, and campus facilities, saying, “The campus is almost as breathtaking as the natural beauty that surrounds it.”
“Fiske identified in its Guide to Colleges many of the same attributes that we ourselves believe are the hallmarks of a St. Lawrence education and experience,” said President William L. Fox ’75. “It’s reassuring to read in a college guidebook that relies heavily on direct student comments that they, too, value our sense of community and lifelong relationships as well as our small class sizes, infrastructure investments, and natural surroundings. We are undoubtedly a school on the move.”
The Fiske guide highlighted how more than half of St. Lawrence students spend time off campus, either at one of the University’s 18 international programs or nearby programs in Canada, Washington, D.C., or even the Adirondack or Sustainability semesters. The guide also refers to the Sullivan University Fellows Program, which offers 25 to 30 students housing and stipends for summer research.
Fiske frequently mentions the fact that classes at St. Lawrence are taught by terminal degree faculty, rather than graduate students who often teach lower-level courses at larger, research-based institutions. “Full professors teach even the introductory courses; more than two-thirds of the courses taken by freshmen have fewer than 20 students.”
The Fiske Guide to Colleges, which became available on July 1, is also available as an iPad app on iTunes and a Web program on CollegeCountdown.com.
