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Episode 40: Colleges in the Far West Region—Part II
In last week's episode, we continued our virtual tour of colleges by looking at the six states of the Far West region: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Alaska, and Hawai'i. We talked about public universities—both the flagship state public universities and other public universities in those states. Today, we will continue our tour of the Far West states by focusing on private higher education institutions.
We are going to check out several national universities, which really draw students internationally, as well as a handful of universities best known in their own region and a handful of smaller liberal arts colleges. Many of them happen to be located in the very large state of California. We feel that these are the private institutions in the Far West that are most likely to attract out-of-state students.
As we say in every one of our episodes, we want to make it clear that no college has asked us or paid us anything to name it. These are simply our choices.
1. Private Universities
Let's look at three large private universities in California, all of which are excellent and all of which will require great to incredible high school GPAs and college admission test scores to get into. First, there is California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech)—a first-rate university akin to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology.
Founded in 1891 in lovely Pasadena, Caltech is "a world-renowned science and engineering research and education institution, where extraordinary faculty and students seek answers to complex questions, discover new knowledge, lead innovation, and transform our future," according to its website. In most cases, I take website statements with a grain of salt; but, I believe this one is actually accurate.
About 1,000 undergraduate students study in 26 programs across six academic divisions: Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. Caltech also enrolls about 1,200 graduate students—so, more graduate than undergraduate students.
Caltech boasts a student-to-faculty ratio of 3:1—so low a ratio that it is literally unbelievable (before this, the lowest we had seen was Rice University's 6:1, which also seemed shockingly low). This means that students have unprecedented access to faculty in class and in research labs and likely outside of class as well. About 80 percent of Caltech undergraduate degree-holders go on to earn a graduate degree.
Despite enrolling really brainy students, Caltech fields 17 men's and women's varsity sports teams. Undergraduates live in eight Houses, each with its own character and each of which they visit during a process called Rotation.
New freshmen in the Class of 2018 are about 60 percent male and 40 percent female—a bit more balanced than the overall institution. Their average SAT scores are about 750 or better on each subtest. So, this is an institution for a very particular kind of student with very particular academic interests.
At about $45,000 in tuition and fees annually, Caltech's cost is comparable to other top-tier universities and not surprising, given the equipment and lab expenses of operating a higher education institution focused on engineering and science.
Just a short drive away in Los Angeles, we find the University of Southern California (known as USC and, to its amazingly active alumni/alumnae, as SC). Founded in 1880 with 53 students, before Los Angeles had paved streets, USC now serves about 19,000 undergraduates and another 24,000 graduate and professional students—again, more graduate than undergraduate students and a very, very big student body for a private university. Almost one-quarter of its students are drawn internationally.
USC's incoming freshmen have an average high school GPA of 3.73 and an average of close to 700 on each of the three SAT subtests; that's a lot of smart kids. USC students are also athletic. USC was home to 418 Olympic athletes (between 1904 and 2010), the most of any U.S. university. And, it offers 20 men's and women's varsity sports teams. If you know any USC alums, you know that the Trojans play some serious football and you know that loyal alums into their eighties attend games in state and out of state. USC also offers students over 850 student organizations, including fraternities and sororities, to join.
USC has 21 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools and colleges—as many as we have ever seen—including, its College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and a wide variety of career-related schools, such as its Schools of Cinematic Arts, Architecture, Dance, Business, Education, Music, Engineering, Art and Design, Accounting, Communication and Journalism, Public Policy, Dramatic Arts, and more. All undergraduates take a core of general education, writing, and diversity-themed courses.
With all of that available at USC, $48,000 in annual tuition and fees is perhaps understandable—though, obviously, still quite high.
Moving north, we come to Stanford University, located a bit south of San Francisco on a lovely campus with beautiful California Mission-style buildings of sandstone with red-tiled roofs. Leland Stanford Junior University was founded in 1885 by U.S. Senator Leland Stanford and his wife in memory of their son. They hired famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design the campus—and it shows. Stanford University was co-educational and nondenominational at a time when most private universities were neither.
It now serves about 7,000 undergraduates and about 9,000 graduate and professional students in seven schools, three of which serve undergraduate students: Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences; Engineering; and Humanities and Sciences. Undergraduates choose from about 65 majors, with the top five majors all being in the sciences and engineering. Like Caltech, Stanford has an extraordinarily low and appealing student-to-faculty ratio of 4:1.
Surprisingly, given its first-rate national reputation, about 40 percent of undergraduates are Californians. Not surprisingly, given its outstanding academic reputation, about 75 percent of new freshmen have a high school GPA of 4.0 or higher and have a 700 or better on each of the three SAT subtests (including about 25 percent with perfect 800 scores).
About 96 percent of undergraduates live on campus and undoubtedly take part in approximately 650 student organizations. There are about 13,000 bicycles being ridden on campus every day. Stanford also provides a robust varsity sports program of 36 men's, women's, and co-educational teams. For a straight 38 years, at least one Stanford team has won a national championship (in 2013–14, it was women's water polo).
At $45,000 in tuition and fees annually, its costs are high, but in line with other top universities.
2. Private Faith-Based Universities
The Far West has an interesting selection of faith-based universities that are well regarded, if not especially well known outside of the region. First, the Far West is home to four of the 28 Catholic Jesuit universities in the U.S.: Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, with about 6,000 undergraduates and a total of about 9,500 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students; Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, with about 5,500 undergraduates and a total of about 9,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students; Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, with about 5,000 undergraduates and a total of about 7,500 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students; and Seattle University in Seattle, Washington, with about 4,500 undergraduates and a total of about 7,500 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. These are all substantial institutions. Pricewise, their annual tuition and fees range from about $38,000 to $44,000, with the ones in Washington being a bit cheaper than the ones in California.
As we have said in previous episodes, the Jesuits trace their commitment to education to St. Ignatius of Loyola, who founded the first Jesuit college in Messina, Sicily, in 1548. Jesuit institutions today place a strong emphasis on intellectual rigor and a liberal arts foundation, social justice issues worldwide, and a life of service. Students of all faiths are welcome at Jesuit institutions, and I believe that most students feel quite comfortable there, even if they are not Catholic.
Turning to a different faith-based tradition, Hawai'i has a branch of Brigham Young University, operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in a perfect locale just north of Honolulu. Its approximately 2,500 undergraduates drawn from 70 countries study in a relatively strict Mormon intellectual, ethical, and social setting, as we described in Episode 34 about the Rocky Mountain region's Brigham Young University campuses in Utah and Idaho.
Moving on to another faith-based tradition, or perhaps more like a philosophy-based tradition, we have Soka University of America (SUA), located in Aliso Viejo in Orange County, California—a short drive from the beach. "Proudly founded upon the Buddhist principles of peace, human rights and the sanctity of life, SUA offers a non-sectarian curriculum" and welcomes students of all beliefs (quoted from the website). With tuition of about $29,000, SUA offers full tuition scholarships to eligible students whose annual family income is $60,000 or less.
Soka means "to create value." The mission of SUA is to "foster a steady stream of global citizens committed to living a contributive life" (quoted from the website). Soka schools—from kindergarten through college in Japan—are based on the work of a Japanese educator, imprisoned by Japanese authorities for opposing World War II and defending religious freedom. The education society that he founded is now one of the world's largest Buddhist organizations made up of laypersons.
Founded in 1987, SUA has just about 400 undergraduate students and a handful of graduate students today—about half from the U.S. All undergraduates earn a B.A. in Liberal Arts, with a concentration in Environmental Studies, Humanities, International Studies, or Social and Behavioral Sciences. All students study abroad for one semester of their junior year, after four courses of language study in their choice of Chinese, French, Japanese, or Spanish—a required international perspective.
Finally, let's look at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, just north of Los Angeles. If you ever see its gorgeous campus perched high above the Pacific Ocean, you will never forget it. Pepperdine describes itself as "a Christian university committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and Christian values, where students are strengthened for lives of purpose, service and leadership" (quoted from the website). Founded in 1937, George Pepperdine spoke to students with these words that still guide the University:
There are many good colleges and universities which can give you standard academic training, but if our school does not give you more than that, it really has no reason to exist. The great difference between this college and other colleges is that we are endeavoring to place adequate emphasis and greater stress upon religious teaching and Christian character. We want to present to you, in teaching and example, the Christian way of life. We do not compel you to accept it. You are free to make your own choice, but we want you to know what it is. (quoted from the website)
Today, Pepperdine's approximately 3,200 undergraduates (by the way, there are graduate programs in five schools as well) study in 44 majors in Seaver College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, after a common core of 19 liberal arts courses, including three required religion courses: one on the Old Testament, one on the New Testament, and one on Christianity's influences on culture (for example, the arts, education, social issues, and law). There are more than 115 student organizations and 17 men's and women's varsity sports teams to keep students busy. More than 60 percent study abroad at one of six Pepperdine facilities—in Buenos Aires, Florence, Heidelberg, Lausanne, London, and Shanghai. There is also a Washington, D.C., facility for "study abroad at home."
Entering freshmen post an average high school GPA of 3.6 or a bit higher and SAT scores of about 625 to 650 on each of three subtests. About 55 percent of students come from California (maybe because not many kids from across the U.S. have seen Malibu yet). Tuition is hefty at $48,000 per year, but that view of the Pacific might be worth it.
3. Colleges That Change Lives
As we have said in several earlier episodes, Colleges That Change Lives is a nonprofit organization that was founded after the publication of the book Colleges That Change Lives, by Loren Pope, a retired New York Times education editor. There are now 44 colleges and universities profiled in the book and on the organization's website. Those that are included are not necessarily famous institutions. Most are smaller colleges and universities that have proved to be successful at developing students both personally and academically so that they can succeed in life after their undergraduate college years.
Six of the 44 institutions profiled are located in our Far West region. You should read about them in the book or on the website to learn more about them. They are The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, which we spoke about in detail in our last episode on public colleges; the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington; Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington; St. Mary's College of California in Moraga, California; Willamette University in Salem, Oregon; and Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Let's focus on Reed for a moment and its approximately 1,400 undergraduate students studying in 40 majors (there are also some graduate students). Long known as a nontraditional college for smart students, Reed has been committed to a liberal arts education since its founding in 1908 from the estates of Oregon pioneers Simeon and Amanda Reed. Its freshmen take a year-long interdisciplinary humanities course, its juniors sit for a qualifying exam in their major, and its seniors write an original research or artistic thesis and defend it orally. Feedback from professors to students in their courses is through narrative comments rather than through traditional grades.
Reed is characterized by free thinking, lack of rules and regulations, its Honor Principle that governs both academic and social life, and small classes with open discussion. About 70 percent of its students go on to graduate or professional school, and about 25 percent go on to earn a Ph.D.
Reed offers club sports and outdoor programs, but no varsity sports. It does offer a wide variety of student organizations, funded by a student vote. Its incoming freshmen boast an average high school GPA of 3.9 and a pair of SAT subtest scores around 700—so these are bright kids in an intriguing and free-spirited academic environment. Almost 30 percent of students are from underrepresented minority groups, and about 50 percent come from the Far West states. Undergraduate tuition and fees are admittedly super high at about $50,000 per year.
Because these Colleges That Change Lives institutions are relatively small and thus are not particularly well known outside of their geographic region, it is my feeling that out-of-state students with a good high school record might have a good chance of being accepted (though that would need to be a really great high school record to be admitted to Reed).
4. Other Private Colleges
Of course, there are still more private colleges in these Far West states, especially in California—indeed, too many to discuss here. But I would like to mention one well-known consortium of colleges, The Claremont Colleges. Founded on the vision of James A. Blaisdell in 1925, The Claremont Colleges are described this way in Blaisdell's own words:
My own very deep hope is that instead of one great, undifferentiated university, we might have a group of institutions divided into small colleges — somewhat of an Oxford type — around a library and other utilities which they would use in common. In this way I should hope to preserve the inestimable personal values of the small college while securing the facilities of the great university.
Blaisdell's vision, which tries to have the best of both worlds, produced today's consortium of five colleges—Pomona College, founded in 1887 and the founding college of this consortium almost five decades later; Scripps College in 1926; Claremont McKenna College in 1946; Harvey Mudd College in 1955; and Pitzer College in 1963—plus two graduate institutions and a support services entity. The colleges are located in Claremont, about 35 miles inland from Los Angeles—"within an hour of the Pacific Ocean, the Mojave Desert, the San Gabriel Mountains and the city of Los Angeles," as the website boasts.
With a total enrollment of about 7,700 students, each college has its own campus within the same one square mile and its own students, but students are able to take a significant number of courses from the 2,500 offered across the five colleges or even to major in something at another of the five colleges. Here are the thumbnail descriptions of the five institutions:
Pomona College offers its 1,600 students a liberal arts curriculum, with 47 majors and a focus on the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. It has an attractive 8:1 student-to-faculty ratio. Despite its small size, it offers 21 varsity sports teams and over 220 student organizations.
Scripps College is a liberal arts college for just under 1,000 women; about 30 percent are students of color. Scripps offers 65 majors, a required Core Curriculum of three challenging interdisciplinary humanities courses, and a required senior thesis. It fields 21 varsity sports teams in collaboration with its consortium mates Claremont McKenna College and Harvey Mudd College.
Claremont McKenna College—once Claremont Men's College, but now coeducational—offers its 1,300 students a liberal arts curriculum with 33 majors and a focus on economics, government, and international relations. It also has an attractive 8:1 student-to-faculty ratio. About 90 percent of its students have an internship during their college years.
Harvey Mudd College offers majors in just six fields—biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and physics, plus a few joint majors—but also requires a humanities course and a writing course of all students. Since 1963, its Clinic Program has engaged juniors and seniors in solving real-world problems for industry clients. Harvey Mudd has a student body of just about 800 undergraduates.
Pitzer College offers its 1,000 students about 40 fields of study in an "interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity" (quoted from the website). Students are expected to engage in community service and are given the freedom to create their own academic programs; there are no traditional core course requirements. About 75 percent of Pitzer students study abroad.
The SAT subtest scores of entering freshmen at The Claremont Colleges are strong—about 680 to 735 across the board. In 2003, however, Pitzer adopted a test-optional admission policy "following a study that proved that there was no direct correlation between academic success at Pitzer and standardized testing. Since Pitzer stopped requiring the SAT or ACT for admission, the campus has seen a 58 percent increase in diversity, an 8 percent increase in GPA, and a 39 percent increase in applicants with a 10 percent increase in retention. The College has also doubled the number of students from low income, first generation backgrounds" (quoted from the website). And that is all quite impressive.
Tested or not, students at The Claremont Colleges are smart. For example, about 40 percent of the incoming freshmen in the Class of 2018 at Harvey Mudd were valedictorians or salutatorians of their high school class. Students at the five colleges pay about $46,000 to $49,000 annually in tuition and fees for the privilege of attending this unique consortium.
If we had more time, I might talk about Occidental College in Los Angeles or Mills College, a women's college in Oakland, California—two more private liberal arts colleges that are worth a look.
5. Looking Back
I am struck by how difficult it appears for students to get into the private colleges we talked about in this episode. Some have always been very selective, but others have gotten increasingly so in the past two or three decades. I usually think that students from outside a region with decent, but not outstanding, grades might have a better shot at getting into a college than comparable students within the region. But I am not sure that is the case here. What I do know is that there are some great choices on the West Coast that are worth thinking hard about if you have a child who has done really well in high school. Otherwise, some of the faith-based institutions and some of the Colleges That Change Lives might give your good, but not great, student a chance to enjoy the West.
Why some faith-based colleges could be a surprisingly interesting choice
What colleges a kid might actually be able to get into these days
How interesting the vision for The Claremont Colleges turned out to be
Brigham Young University (Hawai'i)
The Claremont Colleges (California), including Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, and Scripps College
The Evergreen State College (Washington)
Gonzaga University (Washington)
Loyola Marymount University (California)
Occidental College (California)
Pepperdine University (California)
Reed College (Oregon)
Rice University (Texas)
St. Mary's College of California
Santa Clara University (California)
Seattle University (Washington)
Soka University of America (California)
Stanford University (California)
University of Puget Sound (Washington)
Whitman College (Washington)
Willamette University (Oregon)
Single-sex colleges and universities: In Episode 4: Colleges with Special Emphases (Part 1)
Faith-based colleges and universities: In Episode 6: Still More Colleges with Special Emphases (Part 3)
Public colleges and universities in the Far West region: In Episode 39: Colleges in the Far West Region—Part
Other campuses of Brigham Young University: In Episode 34: Colleges in the Rocky Mountain Region—Part II
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Episode 34: Colleges in the Rocky Mountain Region—Part II
In our last episode, we continued our virtual tour of colleges by focusing in on the five states in the Rocky Mountain region: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. We looked at public universities—both the flagship state public universities and other public universities in those states. In this episode, we will continue our tour of the Rocky Mountain states by switching our focus to private higher education institutions.
Virtual tour of private colleges in the Rocky Mountain Region on NYCollegeChat. Episode notes available at http://usacollegechat.org/34
Let us start by saying that there are far fewer private higher education institutions in these Rocky Mountain states than in the Great Lakes and Southeastern regions we have looked at so far in our virtual tour. For those of you who have been listening to our virtual tour episodes so far, you know that we have frequently talked about Colleges That Change Lives (you can read about them in the book or the website of the same name) and about HBCUs (that is, historically black colleges and universities). Well, there are no colleges of either category in these five Rocky Mountain states. As it turns out, most of the private colleges that we will talk about in this episode are actually faith-based institutions.
As we say in every one of these episodes, we want to make it clear that no college has asked us or paid us anything to name it. These are entirely our own choices.
And to repeat: Because enrollment figures are not necessarily comparable as reported by various colleges, you should use the figures we provide here just as an approximation of the actual campus enrollment, but one that is good enough to help you understand whether the student body is the right size for your child—roughly, small, medium, or large.
1. Faith-Based Institutions
Let's start with a tiny Catholic college with a student enrollment of fewer than 200 undergraduates: Wyoming Catholic College, located in Lander. It is the only four-year private college in the state of Wyoming. It describes itself as "faithfully, joyfully" and "unmistakably" Catholic—something students who are not Catholic should consider carefully before applying. According to its website, the College
immers[es] our students in the beauty of the outdoors, introduce[es] them to the wisdom of Western tradition and thought as found in the Great Books and Good Books of the past millennia, and mak[es] the best of the Catholic spiritual heritage part of the rhythm of daily life in our close College community.
The College has a strong outdoors program, which includes participation in its Equine Studies program, through which students learn to ride and care for horses. It also offers a classical liberal arts curriculum, which includes a study of the Great Books of Western culture and a serious set of distribution requirements, which includes 24 credits of theology, 13 credits of leadership, 10 credits of philosophy, and 16 credits of Latin. Students graduate with a B.A. in Liberal Arts—not in a specific subject field. Wyoming Catholic College opened in 2007, and 17 students graduated this year in the fifth graduating class. By the way, its tuition of $20,000 is quite reasonable for a private college.
Moving on to a larger Catholic university in Colorado, let's look at Regis University, Colorado's Jesuit university founded in 1877 and one of 28 Jesuit universities in the U.S. We spoke about Jesuit institutions in an early episode of NYCollegeChat; they have excellent academic reputations and include colleges like Georgetown University, Boston College, Fordham University, and the College of the Holy Cross. The Jesuit vision of education is a student who excels academically, serves others, and seeks social justice relentlessly. So, students would be pursuing all of those goals at Regis. With a main campus located in northwest Denver, Regis University is an interesting institution composed of four colleges: Regis College, the liberal arts undergraduate college of about 1,900 traditional college students, studying in 60 bachelor's programs; the Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions, which offers bachelor's degrees in several fields, including nursing, and master's degrees in more fields to about 2,500 total students; a newish College of Computer and Information Sciences; and a College for Professional Studies, which enrolls about 5,000 nontraditional adult learners. And Regis is planning to add a College of Business. Traditional undergraduates at Regis would probably feel as though they were in a small- to medium-sized college within a larger university structure, and Jesuit institutions enroll many students who are not Catholic.
Let's now look at two faith-based universities that we have not addressed in our earlier episodes—Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, founded in 1875; and Brigham Young University–Idaho in Rexburg, Idaho, founded in 1888. Both of these universities (there is also a Brigham Young University–Hawaii) are part of the official Church Educational System of The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. Both are sizable universities, with about 24,000 full-time undergraduates in Utah and about 16,000 each semester in Idaho (where students are assigned to a two-semester track out of the three semesters BYUI operates each year—Fall/Winter, Winter/Spring, or Spring/Fall). Tuition is extremely low at both universities—that is, at the level of public universities—but especially low for Mormon students, who make up about 99 percent of the enrollment at BYU in Utah. In Utah, undergraduates can study in 10 schools and colleges, including humanities, education, business, international studies, nursing, fine arts, engineering, and more. In Idaho, undergraduates can study in 100 different majors in six colleges, including career-focused colleges in addition to the humanities. The Church Board of Education has instituted four required religion courses at each BYU campus, including one on the Church's Book of Mormon. Also, part of the admissions process is obtaining an endorsement from a Church leader; if you are not a Mormon, you would be interviewed by a Church bishop. So, it seems to me that attending either Brigham Young University campus might, at times, be a bit uncomfortable if you are not a Mormon, but I have no doubt that the education you would get would be very good.
2. Other Private Colleges and Universities
We want to spotlight two traditional colleges in the Rocky Mountain states, both in Colorado: one medium-sized and one relatively small. Let's start with the University of Denver (commonly known as DU), founded in 1864, now enrolling about 12,000 students, about 5,500 of whom are undergraduates. DU's students are drawn internationally, but with about 35 percent of undergraduates hailing from the state of Colorado. Undergraduates study in over 100 programs in six undergraduate colleges, schools, and divisions, with a very high percentage of about 70 percent studying abroad. In addition to the liberal arts and sciences, DU undergraduates study in colleges and schools of business, engineering and computer science, education, and international studies. Incoming freshmen have average SAT subtest scores hovering around 600 each, but with a high school GPA averaging almost 3.7. DU is an expensive institution, with undergraduate tuition hitting just above the $40,000 mark.
Moving south from Denver to Colorado Springs, home of Pike's Peak, we find Colorado College, a coeducational liberal arts college, founded in 1874, with a broad range of liberal arts majors and about 2,000 students, drawn internationally. About 25 percent of last year's incoming freshmen were from the Northeast, and that freshman class posted a median SAT critical reading plus math score coming in at a high 1390. All classes are relatively small, discussion-based classes, taught by professors (that is, no graduate student instructors). Students are required to live on campus for the first three years. Tuition is high—at about $48,500—like other well-known selective private liberal arts colleges. Perhaps the most interesting thing about Colorado College is its unique Block Plan, where students take all of their courses on a one-at-a-time schedule, studying in each course for three and a half weeks, typically from 9:00 a.m. to noon each weekday—followed by a four-day break to relax and enjoy the natural beauty of Colorado's mountains and forests and canyons. Each block is the equivalent of one college course; students take four blocks per semester, or eight blocks per year—just as regular college students typically take eight to 10 courses a year on a regular schedule. It is hard to argue against paying close attention to one thing at a time! Colorado College also offers 17 varsity sports teams and over 100 student organizations, and 80 percent of students do volunteer community service. And did I say you will have a great view of Pike's Peak from town.
3. An Online University
As we have said in earlier episodes, we are not big proponents of online education for new freshmen—especially not courses taught entirely online, with no classroom meetings at all. We say this based on our experience with the students in the high school we co-founded in Brooklyn, and we say this even though Marie has taught and currently teaches online courses in several colleges, both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Nonetheless, I think we would be remiss if we did not mention Western Governors University (WGU), a private nonprofit university based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and designed by 19 governors of Western states. Admittedly targeting primarily working adults who cannot attend traditional college classes, WGU charges tuition at a flat rate every six months. So, a student can progress as fast as he or she is able, demonstrating competencies through a variety of assessments rather than earning traditional college credits. As WGU says, progress is based on how quickly you can prove what you know—which likely works better for adults who bring some experience to their studies than for recent high school graduates who don't have much useful experience. Tuition for each six-month-long term averages about $3,000, depending on the degree—a figure that seems incredibly reasonable.
Students can get bachelor's degrees in education, business, information technology, and the health professions. Even though each student gets a mentor to serve as an advisor and coach, I personally don't see WGU as a great solution for teenagers. However, parents, if you are looking for either a bachelor's degree or a master's degree in these fields and you want to undertake flexible online study, then you might want to consider WGU.
What's so great about the Rocky Mountain states
What's so great about Jesuit college educations
What's so great (or not) about online college courses
Brigham Young University (Utah)
Brigham Young University-Hawaii
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)
Regis University (Colorado) including the College for Professional Studies, the College of Computer and Information Sciences, Regis College, and the Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions
University of Denver (Colorado)
Western Governors University (online, based in Utah)
Wyoming Catholic College
Faith-based colleges and universities: In Episode 6: Still More Colleges with Special Emphases
Public colleges and universities in the Rocky Mountain Region: In Episode 33: Colleges in the Rocky Mountain Region–Part 1
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Discover Los Monteros
About Los Monteros
Los Monteros is a modern development on the Costa del Sol, about ten minutes drive along the coast from the up market resort of Marbella. With the mountains behind it and the Mediterranean Sea to the front it is in a stunning setting. The development was first built in the 1970s and a number of other urbanisations have sprung up around it since, with often the entire area being called Los Monteros. On site there is a 5* hotel, spa, tennis courts and a golf course while there are plenty of restaurants and bars, especially by the beach. As you drive north along the coast you come along the towns of Torremolinos and Fuengirola while Malaga and the airport are only about 40 minutes away on the motorway.
The Costa del Sol in the south of Spain is one of the most popular destination for British travellers to Spain as well as for those starting out a new life over there. It has grown from a few small coastal villages to having some of the most important towns and cities in the country including Malaga, Estepona, Torremolinos, Marbella and Nerja. Due to large presence of foreigners the gastronomy in the region covers almost every type of food from around the world. However if you want to eat like a local you can and much of the food, such as breaded anchovies, has a strong Arabic influence. There are a number of excellent seafood restaurants in the region, many of them on the beach not far from where your dinner was freshly caught. Due to the climate and the choice of dozens of courses for players of all levels, the Costa del Sol has been described as a golfers paradise. People moving to Spain also like the region due to it's wonderful climate, with over 300 days of sunshine a year and average temperatures that range between 17 degrees centigrade in the middle of winter to around 30 degrees in August.
The Costa del Sol's main city is Malaga which with 600,000 or so people is the Andalusia regions second largest. It is one of Europe's oldest cities and has changed hands over the centuries meaning there are a huge number of things to do for fans of museums and culture in general. For more modern culture Pablo Picasso was born here and has left his stamp all over the city while there is a museum dedicated to him. There are of course numerous opportunities for shopping and eating out and miles of sandy beaches. Other large municipalities worth a visit include Torremolinos, Benalmadena, Fuengirola, Mijas Marbella, Estepona and Nerja. All have their own character and things to do and it is worth doing a little research dependant on the time of year and what takes your fancy – bustling nightlife, a quiet stroll on unexplored streets or something in between.
Due to the weather and proliferation of courses, the region has often been described as a golfer's paradise. You are never far from a course, some world standard championship courses and some better suited to the enthusiastic amateur. Before going, consider your skill level, budget, how far you want to travel and other factors before deciding which is the best for you. All of them benefit from the great climate and many players prefer having a round in the winter as opposed to the summer, while others favour spring or autumn. The coast also offers a wealth of marine attractions, boat hire, angling, snorkelling, jet skiing, sailing, wind surfing or just swimming. Many places such as Marbella and Malaga have marinas where you can hire a yacht for the day – or just find a local restaurant or bar and enjoy the views (and maybe some people watching). If you just want to lie on the beach for the day, you are never far away from a stretch of pristine white sand on the Costa del Sol.
For a family day out, there are a number of theme and water parks dotted along the coast, some big some more compact. Sould Park (Fuengirola), Aquavelis (Torre del Mar), Costa Water Park (Fuengirola), Tivoli (Benalmadena), Fun Beach (Estepona) and Costa Jump (San Pedro) are among the best regarded. Please be aware that many parks are seasonal, especially the water parks. If you go a few kilometres inland you are soon in rural Spain, with wide open spaces, natural parks and the classic whitewashed towns you associate with Andalusia. These areas are ideal for hiking, bike riding, nature watching, bird spotting and other outdoor activities, away from the hustle and bustle of the coast.
The Costa del Sol probably has one of the widest choices and varieties of places to eat in Spain, reflecting the cosmopolitan mix of visitors and expatriates from across the planet. Andalusia is also one of the oldest cradles of civilisation in Europe and the ancient influence of the Romans, Arabs and other cultures can still be found in the region's food. Malaga and Marbella are the best places to head for high end gastronomy, while the odd bargain can still be found if you wonder off the well-trodden path. Even the very best places come and go somewhat or change hands - before travelling try to consult an on-line guide for up to date availability. Any expatriate missing home comforts such as roast dinners, fish and chips or Indian food won't have to look to far in the Costa del Sol resort towns.
Along the coast locally caught sea food remains the staple (hake, shellfish, bream, octopus, squid, sardines etc), although unlike the pre-tourist days dedicated meat eaters are well catered for these days, much of it reared inland of the region. The vegetables are almost certainly locally grown as well, but don't expect the menu to boast of this – locally grown produce is still the norm in most of Spain.
Across Andalusia, expect olives, fried food (usually with flour, not batter) and the kind of sweet treats you may still find at a Moroccan market are all commonly eaten here, all Moorish influenced dishes. Typical offerings include gazpacho (chilled pepper and tomato soup), pescadito frito (small fried fish), rabo de toro (oxtail) and hearty soups such as arroz marinero, a rice dish with seafood.

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3. Approval of May Meeting minutes: Approved.
Souder engineering has already offered a million dollar estimate for infrastructure replacement, but what if we worked with Rudy and did it piecemeal? Dominick could send out an engineer at no cost to look at infrastructure and offer estimates for portions of infrastructure replacement.
Operator's Report & Revised Estimate for Replacement of Undersized Lines (Rudy Martinez by phone): Approx. $1800 for about 80-100 feet. Approx. $1000 less but for two-thirds less line replacement.
Decision: We will proceed with estimate from April for approximately 360 feet line replacement at $2880.
Membership Vote: Nina Paul purchased property at 6 Marguaritaville.
Decision: Approval of new membership.
Summary of financials – Annual loan payment was paid this month so actually not a bad showing at -$765.89.
Meter #10. No payment but APS involved.
Meter #13. Property in foreclosure and we can hold new owner to past due.
not intend to continue? No decision reached.
Brochure – Wanted New Members: Ana will mail with this next billing. Changes: Only contact person to be Gretchen and note that we have at least one open position available. Include logo.
Annual Meeting Notice and plans: Potential new members – Gretchen will contact potential board members.
Notice of Annual Meeting: Simplify to read 'Important changes have been made to the articles and bylaws on which we need to vote at the annual meeting. These can be viewed at website and hard copies will be available annual meeting.' Also note, we are looking for someone to take minutes and compensation possible.
Requests for warranty deeds for proof of ownership of property will be sent out after annual meeting. Notice for annual meeting to be sent with July billing as this will provide ten day notice, but send "wanted" brochure with this billing due out in next few days.
Secretarial Duties (Rebecca): Take minutes, circulate to Board, incorporate changes, and forward to Webmaster; 2. Review Minutes to for prior discussions and decisions relevant to current business; 3. Seal; 4. Maintain Rules and Regs, Bylaws, and Articles (Updating Rules & Regs ongoing).
Water Rights & Bylaws: Sense that to join our system new members must relinquish water rights. Other associations – except Agua Fria – require that new potential members transfer ¼ acre foot for a new membership. It can be necessary in some cases for new members to buy water rights to give to system if not already hooked-into system.
Water rights: Domestic, agricultural, and acequia.
Next Meeting (Annual Meeting of the Association): Wednesday, 1 June at 7:00 PM at the Tesuque Elementary School.


Joyce Wadler of the New York Times wrote a wonderful article about homeowner's relationships with their building contractors. Here is an excerpt from her article with twelve excellent points worthy of consideration. Whether you are embarking on a remodeling project or in the middle of one, read these statements and act accordingly. You will be a wiser individual and your project will reap the benefits.
2. Change orders frequently, then become outraged by the additional costs and delays.
3. Ask a contractor to provide a solution to a difficult design problem, then use a different contractor for the job.
4. Challenge a contractor's expertise with sentences that include the words "my brotherin-law thinks," "my neighbor thinks," or "I took a shop course when I was in 10 and this is what I think." If your brother-in-law was that good, why didn't you hire him?
5. Withhold final payment for months because of minor problems like missing fixtures that are on order.
6. Withhold final payment because you know it will cost the contractor so much money and time to take you to court that it will not be worth it.
7. Cling to the belief that contractors have X-ray vision that enables them to see into walls, and thus are aware of faulty wiring and plumbing or rot before the start of a job.
8. Attempt to poach the contractor's workers by taking them aside and asking them to come back when the job is finished to do another job.
9. Schedule construction during the third trimester of pregnancy.
11. Call the contractor in the middle of the night and on weekends about problems that can wait until Monday.
12. Hover about a job while murmuring tragically, "It doesn't look finished." It's a job site. It doesn't look finished because it's not finished.


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Tesla has set itself a huge goal with the Model 3. When deliveries start later this year, the $35,000 vehicle will be the cheapest car the company has ever produced. That means more potential customers, so Tesla plans to ramp up overall production dramatically to meet demand. It's a serious challenge, but in a conference call on Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk told investors that the company has taken big steps to make the car as easy to assemble as possible.
"We've gone through great pains with Model 3 to design of it for manufacturing and to not have all sorts of bells and whistles and special features," Musk said during the company's first quarter 2017 earnings call.
Musk gave the example of the Model X, the company's SUV that launched in September 2015 nearly a year behind schedule. During development, the car became a "technology bandwagon" for all Tesla's coolest ideas.
"That is a terrible strategy," Musk said. "You really want to start off simple and add things over time."
The Model 3 makes a lot of changes from the Model S, the $68,000 car that's currently the cheapest Tesla sells. The Model 3 has 1.5 kilometers of wiring inside, for example, where the Model S has double that. Where the Model S has two computers inside, the Model 3 has just one. The Model 3 has fewer seats, less cargo space, and thanks to less advanced technology will have slower acceleration.
The company has also ensured the production process is more streamlined.
"We've got a much better supply chain in place, we've got the A team from the A suppliers," Musk said. "We didn't have that from the Model X or the S."
The Tesla Model S is currently the cheapest car the company produces. Getty Images / Ethan Miller
Tesla has become a household name in the electric car space, but it still makes a relatively small number of cars. General Motors sells around nine million cars per year, but Tesla produces fewer than 100,000.
There are signs that the company is ramping up production. Last month, the company revealed that it produced 25,418 cars in the first quarter of the year, the most the company has ever made in a quarter.
The company aims to go bigger, though. Tesla wants to reach a rate of 10,000 Model 3 cars produced per week at some point in 2018. That's on top of Model S and X production: Tesla previously set itself the goal of reaching overall production rates of 500,000 cars by the end of 2018.
Alongside the simplified Model 3 design, the company is building the Gigafactory in the Nevada desert to reach this goal. When complete, the factory is expected to be the biggest building in the world at 5.8 million square feet.
"There's plenty of things with uncertainty, but I don't know of anything that would prevent us from starting production in July and exceeding 5,000 units a week by the end of the year," Musk said.


My Cousin Jeff has been coming from Florida to Akron for the Thanksgiving Weekend for years now - and the last few years our tradition has included a Friday trip to Market Square in Cleveland. We do some shopping at The West Side Market and then grab a few beers at the Great Lakes Brewery. This year we also ate and had a drink at the newish Market Garden Brewery - which I would recommend highly. The beautiful weather helped make it a great trip - afternoon drinking is always fun - and you can be sure Jeff stocked up on Christmas Ale(not yet sold in Florida).
We spent our last day in Puerto Rico wandering around Old San Juan - the 16th century, Spanish Colonial city. Most of Old San Juan is still walled and it is book-ended by two historic forts. We walked through the blue cobblestone streets and came upon Fort San Felipe del Morro(above). Laura commented that we could have spent a whole day just there. We then followed the old city walls along the ocean to Fort San Cristóbal.
Old San Juan from Fort San Felipe del Morro.
The beautiful Laura on the beach in Rincon, Puerto Rico.
After a long farm season and a week to relax from it all in Rincon, Puerto Rico I'm back to blogging. Starting today I'll have a new post and photo everyday - I'm also gonna add a few photos with back-dated posts from the farm season.
Look for my posts about the "analogue experience" as I continue to fix up and shoot my vintage camera collection as well as finish up my darkroom!
Today I drove around the 1949 Oliver Row Crop 77 before we put it away for the Winter. I pulled it next to the John Deere 7830 to take a few comparison photos. I spend a lot of time in the John Deere over the Summer and although it was fun to drive around the antique Oliver I'll take the AC and CD player(not to mention power) of the Deere any day.


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Il Proconsul africanus è una specie estinta di primate del genere Proconsul, vissuto in Africa nel Miocene inferiore e medio (tra 23 e 14 milioni di anni fa).

Il nome Proconsul (che significa "prima del Consul"), dato nel 1933 dal suo scopritore Arthur Hopwood, fa riferimento a uno scimpanzé allora famoso a Londra di nome Consul.

Ritrovamenti
Si tratta della prima delle specie di Proconsul scoperta e per alcuni decenni comprese anche le altre attualmente ascritte al genere. All'inverso la specie Xenopithecus koruensis, scoperta nel 1951 dallo stesso Hopwood, fu riclassificata da Louis Leakey e LeGros Clark come Proconsul africanus.

Questi primati vissero durante il Miocene in Africa centro-meridionale: si trattava di animali che presentavano analogie sia con le catarrine che con gli ominidi. Lo stesso Leakey, grande paleontologo e pioniere delle teorie dell'evoluzione umana, disse:

"Di Proconsul africanus trovammo delle ossa delle zampe anteriori, e nel 1948 Mary Leakey scoprì un cranio sull'isola di Rusinga. I canini sembrano quelli di una grande scimmia, ma la parte frontale del cranio ricorda quella di un essere umano: in ogni caso, non si tratta né di una scimmia ancestrale, poiché è troppo evoluto per esserlo, né di un antenato dell'uomo, poiché è ancora troppo primitivo per esserlo. Tuttavia, possiede caratteristiche di ambedue queste figure..."

Morfologia
Questi animali possedevano un cranio di medie dimensioni, con cervello leggermente più grande di quanto ci si aspetterebbe per un primate di quella taglia (167 cm³), la cui la superficie doveva essere simile a quella dei gibboni o dei cercopitechi. Gli zigomi erano assai pronunciati, mentre il muso era allungato in avanti. La regione infraorbitale era piuttosto larga, anche se i seni etmoidi erano di ridotte dimensioni. Il canale auditivo di questa specie era simile a quello delle attuali catarrine. Il seno mascellare era piuttosto ristretto, tuttavia sia la mascella che la mandibola possedevano forti denti ricoperti da un sottile strato di smalto, in particolare i molari erano assai grossi e piatti ed i canini erano più grandi nei maschi che nelle femmine.

Avevano una conformazione dei polsi simile a quella delle scimmie del Vecchio Mondo, con presenza di arco trasverso sul piede; mancavano di coda ed avevano zampe anteriori più lunghe e forti rispetto a quelle posteriori, in rapporti simili allo scimpanzé. La costituzione complessiva del corpo era robusta e dovevano pesare al massimo una ventina di chilogrammi. Si muovevano con andatura quadrupede e avevano uno stile di vita prevalentemente arboricolo. In base a quanto intuibile dalla morfologia dentaria, si ritiene che fossero prevalentemente frugivori.

Bibliografia
Virginia Morell, Ancestral Passions: the Leakey Family, Copyright 1995

Voci correlate
 Lista dei fossili dell'evoluzione dell'uomo

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Primati fossili
Ominidi

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