Beth & Tim MannersMar 171 min7 Tips for Quarantined StudentsNone of us wanted or predicted this -- but here we are -- safe at home with so much time on our hands. Here are seven great ways to pass the time, be produc...
Beth & Tim MannersMar 54 minU of Maryland Tour: By The NumbersUniversity of Maryland gets right to the point, quantifying itself with data. Twelve colleges, 90 undergraduate majors and 4,447 total faculty. Seven librari...
Beth & Tim MannersFeb 205 minWesleyan Tour: Order out of ChaosArriving a half-hour early for our Tuesday noontime Wesleyan University tour, we were greeted by one, and then another, chockablock-full parking lot. Calling...
Beth & Tim MannersJan 214 minPurchase Tour: An Arts-Industrial ComplexWhen Purchase College first opened its doors in 1967, Nelson Rockefeller called it “the cultural gem” of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It c...
Beth & Tim MannersJan 146 minYale Tour: Cathedral of KnowledgeYale University seems like a pretty good school. Okay, sure. It is in fact, every bit as awe-inspiring as a college has a right to be on a raw, January day i...
Beth & Tim MannersOct 29, 20191 minCampusReel Offers Online Campus ToursTech Crunch: "CampusReel quietly went live last year with a plan to deliver a real campus tour experience to applicants right from their computer or phone. T...
Beth & Tim MannersJun 25, 20195 minTrinity Tour: Big City, Small Campus, Bright FutureAlmost always the tour follows the information session, but at Trinity College it was the other way around, at least for us. Touring first was not a particul...
Beth & Tim MannersJun 11, 20194 minUConn Tour: Beyond HuskymaniaWhen is an urban campus not an urban campus? One answer might be: when it’s the University of Connecticut. Set in New England’s countryside, UConn’s entrance...
Beth & Tim MannersJun 3, 20195 minGeorgetown Tour: What Rocks? Hoya Saxa!We gamely followed Matt, our witty and vivacious Georgetown University tour guide, as he ascended what appeared to be a fire escape. Where were we going, and...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 30, 20193 minHofstra Tour: Monkey Puzzles & Other SurprisesOne would get the wrong idea if the aging, high-rise residential halls visible from a bordering turnpike were one’s first impression of Hofstra University. T...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 23, 20191 min21 Fun Facts About 12 CollegesAt the 2019 IECA Spring conference, a collection of colleges was invited to explain themselves, lightning-round style, in five minutes or fewer. Here is some...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 17, 20193 minDePaul Tour: A Distinctly Vincentian EducationNever afraid of getting too much of a good thing, we squeezed in one last college tour during our Chicago whirlwind. With just hours to spare before our retu...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 16, 20194 minU Chicago Tour: Yes, We Had FunLooking for the admissions office, walking through a grand archway, not knowing exactly what was to come, we were stunned by the jaw-dropping elegance of wha...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 15, 20194 minWisconsin Tour: Small City, Big CampusLocated in a capital city and with a total student population of about 44,000, it would seem a given that the University of Wisconsin at Madison would be a b...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 14, 20194 minBeloit Tour: Keep an Eye on this TurtleIf it weren’t directly on the path between Chicago and Madison, we might have missed Beloit College, and that would have been a shame. Truth is, we hadn’t pl...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 13, 20193 minNorthwestern Tour: Warm and WindyGiven its rigorous academics and selective admissions, one would not expect life at Northwestern University to be a day at the beach. Yet its campus boasts n...
Beth & Tim MannersApr 30, 20194 minJMU Tour: Sweet Smell of SuccessFeels big! That was our first impression as our shuttle bus pulled up to the Festival Student Center in the Skyline area of the James Madison University camp...
Beth & Tim MannersApr 29, 20194 minUVA Tour: It Takes an Academical VillageHis name was invoked no less than four times during the first five minutes of our UVA tour. Thomas Jefferson is known for many things, and his legacy endures...
Beth & Tim MannersApr 26, 20193 minRichmond Tour: Leaders in LeadershipIt would be easy to dismiss the University of Richmond as just another pretty campus in Virginia. It really is beautiful. Every one of its red-brick building...
Beth & Tim MannersApr 25, 20194 minCollege Tour: William & Mary SurprisesThe most surprising thing about the College of William & Mary isn’t that it was built with pirate money (true story, look it up). Nor is it that it is the se...
