My final stop on this Turkey and Greece tour was to Perrotis College, part of the American Farm School. The American Farm School is an independent, nonprofit educational institution founded in 1904 to serve the population of Greece and the Balkans. Major educational divisions include the Primary School, Haseotes Middle School, Vocational High School, General High…Continue readingPit Stop #90: American Farm School
Category: Health & Wellness Education
Founded in 1942, Fairfield University is a coeducational, comprehensive Jesuit institution thatprepares students for leadership and service in a constantly changing world. Since its inception,the University has grown from an initial class of 303 undergraduate male students, admitted tothe College of Arts and Sciences, into a vibrant coeducational university with this year’s incoming class totaling more than 1,450 first-time,…Continue readingPit Stop #75: Fairfield University
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
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
The afternoon after we visited Brown, we drove about twenty minutes south to the campus of the New England Institute of Technology (NEIT). At first blush, you would think Brown and NEIT –one, a famed member of the Ivy League and the other a technical university with its roots as a trade school– have absolutely nothing…Continue readingPit Stop #36: New England Institute of Technology
Johnson & Wales University (JWU) was Stop #3 on this Rhode Island road trip, but it was actually Stops #3 and #4, with a Stop #5 to come, as we hope to visit JWU’s North Carolina campus in the future. JWU is a fascinating institution with an equally fascinating history. Founded in 1914 by two women, Ms. Johnson and…Continue readingPit Stop #33: Johnson & Wales University