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Africans & Astronomers. Michigan's Hope College, long a school for students of Dutch origin, now has a summer branch in Vienna. Ohio's Heidelberg College sends 15 to 20 juniors each year to its namesake university in Germany. At Ohio's Western College for Women, launched originally...
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Some of these colleges have been quiet founts of no-nonsense education for decades. Suburban Atlanta's Agnes Scott turns out a high number of fine Ph.D. candidates and has an excellent astronomy department. Tennessee's quiet little University of the South patterns its 10,000-acre campus...
Learning & Burning. Kentucky's unique Berea College is designed specifically to serve poor students from the Southern Appalachians (90% of enrollment). Searching for talent amidst poverty, Berea charges no tuition (students earn their keep), is so successful of its kind that educators flock to it from underdeveloped countries in...
Virginia's lively Hollins College boasts one of the country's key teaching machine projects (and a rare statistics major for women). At Iowa's Easterner-beckoning Simpson College, all students take in a new "Vital Center" curriculum designed to ask questions and pose answers about Western...