University of Mississippi / Ole Miss
In April 2013 I visited the University of Mississippi, better known as Ole Miss. Ole Miss is the smallest of the SEC universities with only 16,000 undergraduates. For this reason a student can have both the exciting environment of a SEC school, and at the same time, take classes in a small school setting. The […]
SACAC Spring Conference
This past April I had the opportunity to attend the SACAC conference in Memphis, Tennessee. I had never stayed at the Peabody Hotel, so it was a wonderful experience for me. If you have never spent any time in Memphis, you need to do it. The Peabody is a magnificent hotel with some of the […]
Lynn University
Visited Jan 30 – Feb 2, 2013. This year I was one of the lucky college counselors invited to attend Lynn University’s 14th Annual Counselor Program. This group was comprised of twenty amazing college counselors from all over the world including individuals from Turkey, England, Switzerland, and Puerto Rico as well as from all over […]
New England Trip – Part 2 – Dartmouth, Middlebury, Univ. of VT & Champlain
Visited October 2012. I have visited all of the other Ivies in the past, but I had never seen Dartmouth before this trip. It certainly did not disappoint me. Dartmouth is comprised of 4,200 undergraduates and 1,700 graduate students. Their calendar system is called the D Plan. There are four academic terms per year, which […]
Lynn University – Transitions 2013
Transitions 2013: High school to Higher Education Options for Students with Learning Differences On Feb 1, 2013, I had the opportunity to attend the fourth annual Transitions Conference at Lynn University. If my readers get one important message from this blog, it is to run to the website of Dr. Robert Brooks, a psychology professor […]
New England Trip – Part 1 – Bennington, Williams & Landmark
Visited October 2012. The first week of October last year I travelled to Vermont to visit Bennington College, Landmark College, Middlebury College, the University of Vermont, Champlain College. Since I was in the area, I also drove south one day to visit Williams College and on another day I travelled to New Hampshire to visit […]