Month: August 2010

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Sixty-five Transylvania students have returned to campus a week early to participate in five community service and environmental orientation programs. The programs are for first-year students who want to start their college experiences at Transylvania a week early and the upperclassmen who assist in leading the programs. One group, Jump Start, travels to Land Between the Lakes to perform various services for the national recreation area, but the remaining four groups stay in Lexington, getting to know their new community and becoming downtown citizens through volunteering and outreach opportunities. Some highlights of the week: Monday, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.: Rising Through Education (RiTE) at the Kids Café. Tuesday, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.: Disciples Orientation Into Transy (DO-IT) at Kentucky Refugee Ministries. Wednesday, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.: Community Learning and Sustainability Students (CLASS) at Transylvania’s grant-funded butterfly garden project on the northeast corner of Broadway and Fourth Street (www.transy.edu/news/arch_story.htm?id=585&obj=index) Wednesday, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.:  RiTE at God’s Pantry Thursday, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.: CLASS and RiTE together with Seedleaf at London Ferrell Community Garden on W. Third Street The four Lexington-based service groups are First-Year Urban Program (FUP), Disciples Orientation Into Transy (DO-IT), Rising Through Education (RiTE) and Community Learning and Sustainability Students (CLASS). Contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 for more information.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University is listed in The Princeton Review’s The Best 373 Colleges, a ranking that includes the top 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges. “Our choices are based on institutional data we collect about schools, our visits to schools over the years, feedback we gather from students attending the schools, and the opinions of our staff and our 28-member National College Counselor Advisory Board,” said Robert Franek, Princeton Review’s senior vice president for publishing. “We also work to keep a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character.”   The book’s two-page profile of Transylvania includes comments from Transy students surveyed for the book. Included in those comments were descriptions of Transylvania as a “small and ‘very challenging’ bastion of the liberal arts and sciences with a ‘strong premed program,’ ‘a remarkable pre-law program,’ and a broad core curriculum.” A sophomore is quoted as saying, “the small college atmosphere allows students to participate in many arenas. At many schools, a math major would never be able to sing in the choir, work on the school newspaper, and be a resident assistant.” Other students said that “academic standards here are high” and dedication is “required if you want to excel.” The low student-to-faculty ratio means professors “are really concerned about helping you learn” and are “great to just sit down and talk with during their office hours.” The Princeton Review, a New York-based education

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