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    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Feb 8, 2021
    • 2 min

    Selective Schools Value Elective Choices

    University of Rochester: "Selecting only the courses that would be most impressive to a selective admissions committee would be fairly...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Oct 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    Auburn: 'Urban Studio' Develops Downtown

    Bahm Now: "Located in downtown Birmingham, the Auburn University Urban Studio is a teaching & outreach program of Auburn’s College of...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Apr 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    College & Careers in the Arts

    Vanderbilt: "What you do in college has a surprising impact on your ability to sustain a career in the arts long-term, according to a new...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Jan 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    Cornell 'College Scholars' Invent Majors

    Daily Sun: "From tackling the economics of Uber to diving deep into Latin American politics, the College Scholar students plan to push...
    Lehigh Plans Business College Expansion
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Jan 9, 2020
    • 1 min

    Lehigh Plans Business College Expansion

    The Morning Call: "A place for young companies to grow. Big data labs. Technological-equipped classrooms that will attract students and...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Jan 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    Oberlin Transcends Traditional Studies

    Crain's Cleveland Business: "Oberlin announced that in fall 2020, it will introduce five new programs of study 'that transcend...
    Purdue to Build Data-Science Flagship
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Dec 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    Purdue to Build Data-Science Flagship

    Purdue: "Purdue University will build a new $40 million facility dedicated to data science, designed to help the university meet its goal...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Nov 12, 2019
    • 2 min

    Pre-Med Majors: Think Outside the Sciences

    US News: "When Pre-Meds are comparing and contrasting college majors, they should understand that medical schools admit students with...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Jun 26, 2019
    • 1 min

    When Minor Interests Are Major Studies

    CheatSheet: “Don’t you wish you could have studied in The Beatles in college? Believe it or not, majoring in this English rock band is a...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • May 22, 2019
    • 2 min

    Goucher Redefines Liberal Arts

    Washington Post: “At Goucher College, students no longer need to take a broad range of introductory classes outside their major to...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Apr 12, 2019
    • 2 min

    Traditional Studies are in ‘Major’ Trouble

    Axios: “In 1869, at Harvard, Charles Eliot invented the college major as we know it — each student would be channeled into a specialized...
    Penn Tour: Be What You Seem, Really
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Apr 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Penn Tour: Be What You Seem, Really

    Yes, it exhibits everything one would expect at an “ivy league” school: a grand, bustling green campus, suitably majestic and imposing...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Feb 4, 2019
    • 1 min

    St. Olaf College: A Holistic Health Curriculum

    St. Olaf Magazine: “From 2011 to 2016, 75 percent of St. Olaf students who applied to medical school with a cumulative grade point...
    Planetarium is ‘High Point’ at HPU
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Jan 10, 2019
    • 1 min

    Planetarium is ‘High Point’ at HPU

    “The main lobby of the new science building is nearly 50 feet high, topped by a cupola. A hallway leads into the building past big...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Dec 27, 2018
    • 1 min

    Major Dilemma: What to Study at College?

    US News: “College majors can be conventional, such as business, or off the beaten path. California State University—Fresno, for example,...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Dec 7, 2018
    • 1 min

    How to Study for Jobs of the Future?

    NPR: “Eighty-five percent of the jobs that today’s students will do in 2030 don’t exist yet, the Institute for the Future has predicted....
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Oct 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    MIT Launches Billion-Dollar AI Intitiative

    The Verge: “MIT has announced a $1 billion initiative to … establish a new college of computing to train the next generation of machine...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Oct 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    Which Majors Pay Off Biggest?

    CBS: “A student’s major as well as their college can make a significant impact on their career earnings, according to a new study from...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Aug 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    Goucher Announces ‘Major’ Cutbacks

    Baltimore Sun: “Math majors at Goucher College will soon be a thing of the past. Gone, too, will be physics majors, music majors and...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Oct 17, 2017
    • 1 min

    Ivy League: What Are The Most Popular Majors?

    Business Insider: “So what do undergraduates at the eight Ivy League schools like to study? Turns out, it’s surprisingly similar no...
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