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Hollins Featured in "The Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Colleges" Hollins is among the nation’s most environmentally responsible colleges, according to the third annual edition of The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges, released April 17. The Guide to 322 Green Colleges praises Hollins for developing a strategic plan for carbon neutrality, composting food waste, and installing energy meters in academic buildings and residence halls to monitor energy use, but devotes its biggest acclaim to the "talented students [who] are the heart of Hollins University’s commitment to sustainability….[T]he achievements of students themselves will blow you away." The guide salutes Hollins students for their assistance in installing solar panels at the Dana Science Building, carrying out carbon reduction projects on campus, designing a wetland restoration project, and developing a native plant database for landscaping purposes. And, the Hollins Community Garden "testifies to the commitment of the gifted students of Hollins to a sustainable world." |
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Hollins is included in Peterson’s Cool Colleges 101, a new undergraduate guide featuring profiles of "cool" colleges across the United States and abroad. "Hollins is a quiet campus for the serious student," Peterson’s says in its 2011 review of Hollins. "Comfortable dorms, a lively and engaged Student Government Association, and many clubs and traditions make Hollins a place where lifelong friendships begin." |
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Hollins Among Top Ten Nationally in Alumnae Fundraising Support for Second Consecutive Year For the second year in a row, Hollins has been named one of the ten "Top Institutions in Alumni Support Per Student" by the Council for Aid to Education, a national nonprofit organization focused on improving quality and access in higher education. The rankings are reported in the August 26, 2011 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. |
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Forbes ranks Hollins among the top 300 of "America's Top Colleges." Hollins University is ranked number 277 in Forbes magazine's annual list of America's best colleges (for 2012). The rankings are compiled by Forbes and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP). Forbes |
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Hollins University was named a "Best in the Southeast" College and featured among "The Best 377 Colleges" by The Princeton Review Hollins is one of 135 colleges and universities The Princeton Review recommends in the "Best in the Southeast" section of its Web site feature, "2013 Best Colleges: Region by Region." The 12-state Southeast Region includes colleges in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Princeton Review's Best 377 Colleges |
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Hollins is ranked #35 among the Washington Monthly’s top 254 liberal arts colleges for 2012. The Washington Monthly [2012] |
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The 2013 Fiske Guide to Colleges features Hollins among the small colleges and universities strong in the following fields: art or design, film/television, and dance. The Fiske Guide to Colleges |
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The NSSE is designed to obtain information from students about the nature of the undergraduate experience. Specifically, it measures the extent to which students engage in effective education practices that are empirically linked with learning, personal development and other desired outcomes such as student satisfaction, persistence, and graduation. Here are some highlights from the 2006 survey:
Click here to read more highlights. (PDF) National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) |
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Hollins is ranked among the best liberal arts colleges in the 2010 edition of U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges. Also, Hollins was ranked as the 29th most popular liberal arts college in the nation, based on yield (the percentage of applicants accepted by a college who end up enrolling at that institution in the fall). America's Best Colleges U.S. News & World Report Ranks Hollins Among the Nation’s Most Connected Colleges |
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294 colleges and universities representing 42 states and two countries, United States and Canada, are honored as Colleges of Distinction for the 2012-2013 school year. "These schools are among the very best in North America. Each school goes above and beyond the Four Distinctions that really make an undergraduate education: Great Students, Engaged Teaching, Vibrant Communities, and Successful Outcomes." |