Transitions Magazine Fall 2011 - Prescott College

Prescott College Receives High MarksNational Media, ratings, and rankings list Prescott College among the best and greenestThe Princeton Review Best 379 CollegesPrescott College is one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according tothe Princeton Review. The well-known education services company features the school in the 2015edition of its annual college guide. The College is also one of the institutions the Princeton Reviewrecommends for the Western region. The book includes ranking lists of top 20 schools in 62categories based on the Princeton Review’s surveys of 130,000 students attending the colleges.Once again, Prescott College has ranked in the top 20 for LGBT-friendly campuses, alongside thelikes of Stanford University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Wisconsin, among others.Guide to Green CollegesThe Princeton Review also selected Prescott College for inclusion in the third annual edition of itsfree downloadable book, The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges: 2014 Edition. The guide is,according to Princeton Review sources, the only free, comprehensive guidebook profiling institutionsof higher education that demonstrate a notable commitment to sustainability in their academicofferings, campus infrastructure, activities, and career preparation.U.S. News and World Report – Best in West and Top for VeteransPrescott College is featured in the 2015 U.S. News and World Report guide to the best collegesas one of the top Liberal Arts Colleges in the West. U.S. News also developed a new ranking this yearto help veterans pursue a college education under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Prescott College was named oneof only 234 schools on the inaugural Best Colleges for Veterans list.Sierra Magazine’s Cool SchoolsThe annual Sierra Magazine Cool Schools ranking pegged Prescott College as one of the “cool”kids. We should be able to improve our rating year over year with all the current investments insustainability through our campus housing, land and resource management, energy and waterconservation measures, and activities of sustainability advocates across campus.TheBestSchools.orgThe Best Schools, a website devoted to finding the best education for a student’s needs, ranked PrescottCollege as one of the top 100 colleges in the nation. The ranking presents the best four-year liberal artscollege and the best full-fledged university in each of the 50 states. In Arizona, the University of Arizonain Tucson also ranked among the top 100 colleges.Arizona Certified Veteran Supportive CampusPrescott College is the first private college in Arizona certified by the Arizona Department ofVeterans’ Services (ADVS) as a Veteran Supportive Campus. Arizona post-secondary institutions mayrequest certification if they demonstrate that they have identified the needs and issues of studentveterans, faculty, and staff to help develop programs that best support student veterans. Such programsinclude student veteran orientation and sensitivity and awareness training on military and veterans’ culture,as well as peer mentoring and support programs for student-veterans.Colleges Shaping the Next GenerationPrescott College has been recognized as a top college for teacher education. The Online College Database(www.onlinecollegedatabase.org) has a new ranking, Top Colleges in Arizona Shaping the Next Generation,honoring the post-secondary institutions in the state that graduated the most education andteaching professionals in 2012.Rainbow, Dosie Pit area burn, 2013Transitions Fall 2014 11