Undergraduate
Saint Michael's hosts 60 Northeast students for two-day campus visit
Students came from urban schools in Massachusetts, New York and Vermont
Contact Information:
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Sixty high school students from urban schools in Massachusetts, New York and Vermont visited Saint Michael's College on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25. They were given lectures and tours, dining hall meals and a visit to the rip-roaring 18th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Society Talent Show-always a knock-out.
"We know a campus visit is the most important aspect of a student's decision-for all students-so we are pleased to have this wonderful group here!" said J. Victoria Orner, Associate Director of Admission, ALANA Recruiting.
Weekday and weekend visits are available for all prospective students during the spring and fall at Saint Michael's.
The visitors on April 24 and 25 included Massachusetts students from Charlestown High School, East Boston High School and Madison Park High School; New York students from the High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture, and Vermonters from Burlington, Winooski, Milton and Rice High Schools.
The visiting students were given sample college classes from Professors Vincent Bolduc (sociology), George Ashline (mathematics) and Moise St. Louis, director of multicultural student affairs. In addition to campus tours, they visited Burlington and Winooski, had Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, and got college information from Ms. Orner, Saint Michael's vice president for enrollment Jerry Flanagan, and from alumnus Christian Paulino, a New York City public school history teacher and chaperone of one of the groups.
"We were really very pleased with having these students on campus," said Jacqueline Murphy, director of admission.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Sixty high school students from urban schools in Massachusetts, New York and Vermont visited Saint Michael's College on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25. They were given lectures and tours, dining hall meals and a visit to the rip-roaring 18th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Society Talent Show-always a knock-out."We know a campus visit is the most important aspect of a student's decision-for all students-so we are pleased to have this wonderful group here!" said J. Victoria Orner, Associate Director of Admission, ALANA Recruiting.
Weekday and weekend visits are available for all prospective students during the spring and fall at Saint Michael's.
The visitors on April 24 and 25 included Massachusetts students from Charlestown High School, East Boston High School and Madison Park High School; New York students from the High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture, and Vermonters from Burlington, Winooski, Milton and Rice High Schools.
The visiting students were given sample college classes from Professors Vincent Bolduc (sociology), George Ashline (mathematics) and Moise St. Louis, director of multicultural student affairs. In addition to campus tours, they visited Burlington and Winooski, had Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, and got college information from Ms. Orner, Saint Michael's vice president for enrollment Jerry Flanagan, and from alumnus Christian Paulino, a New York City public school history teacher and chaperone of one of the groups.
"We were really very pleased with having these students on campus," said Jacqueline Murphy, director of admission.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
