A trip north to Portland, Maine is always a treat and my most recent visit was no exception. I was greeted by Laura Freid, now in her seventh year as the President of Maine College of Art and Design. We first met more than 20 years ago while Dr. Freid was earning her doctorate at…Continue readingPit Stop #65: Maine College of Art & Design
Category: Colleges & Universities
These happy graduates in white were clustered around the entrance sign to Curry College, making it the perfect photo opportunity for me to commemorate my visit. Apparently, it was my week for campus tours– as I hit three colleges in just seven days. By the time I reached Curry College’s main campus, located a mere eight…Continue readingPit Stop #64: Curry College
At the very start of this summer, I had the privilege of visiting Bryant University and its President Ross Gittell. This was my first trip to Bryant, located in Smithfield, Rhode Island just fifty miles south of Boston and twelve miles north of Providence. President Gittell, in addition to being an accomplished economist and economic development…Continue readingPit Stop #63: Bryant University
So what small residential liberal arts college has been a question (or answer) on the hit game show Jeopardy! twelve times to date? That would be Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, a mere 15 miles north of Manhattan. Sarah Lawrence is one of several New York institutions looking to move their accreditation to NECHE and…Continue readingPit Stop #62: Sarah Lawrence College
In early February, I had the privilege of traveling to the spectacular island of Malta for an initial staff visit to CoROM (the College of Remote and Offshore Medicine). CoROM is at the very beginning of exploring accreditation by NECHE, a process it shares with a number of other international institutions. As I’ve found in…Continue readingPit Stop #61: College of Remote and Offshore Medicine
Mid-January took me back to the picture-perfect coastal city of Newport, Rhode Island,one of my favorites. Readers of this blog may recall a prior entry on Salve ReginaCollege, perched on the cliffs overlooking the Atlantic. This trip was to a very differentinstitution, but one also set on the water, this time Narragansett Bay. Its aquatic…Continue readingPit Stop #60: Naval War College
Providence College (or PC as it is known to Friartown aficionados) is home to one of NECHE’s commissioners, John Sweeney, and I’ve owed John and PC a visit for too long. John is finishing his sixth and final year volunteering with NECHE and his service to the organization has been extraordinary. In his “day job”…Continue readingPit Stop #59: Providence College
This past December, NECHE on the Road traveled to Kuwait — and even though I’m accustomed to being amazed by almost every one of the 50+ institutions we’ve visited, just about everything I experienced in Kuwait and at the university took me by surprise. My purpose in traveling so far was to visit the American University…Continue readingPit Stop #58: American University of the Middle East
There are small towns, and then there are smaller towns. But South Royalton, Vermont is actually a village of about 700 folks within the town of Royalton. Now, South Royalton may be small but it is also home to an extraordinarily special institution: Vermont Law and Graduate School. (Vermont Law also has a second home, up the…Continue readingPit Stop #57: Vermont Law and Graduate School
Recently, I had the opportunity to travel north to Putney, Vermont, home of Landmark College, accredited by NECHE since 1991. I know I say this over and over, but almost every time I visit one of NECHE’s schools, I come away thinking, “What a unique institution with such a distinct and valuable mission!” Landmark College certainly fits…Continue readingPit Stop #56: Landmark College