‘School Counselors: Helping Students Reach for the Stars’
SCVi is celebrating National School Counselors Week Feb. 5-9, 2018, to focus public attention on the unique contribution of school counselors within U.S. school systems. National School Counseling Week, sponsored by ASCA, highlights the tremendous impact school counselors have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career.
I feel so lucky to be able to work with our awesome learners and guide them to follow their dreams and passions!
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COUNSELING & COLLEGE INFORMATION
COLLEGE OF THE WEEK
Each week, SCVi will provide insight into unique college options for students & families. Our sources include The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2018; Colleges That Change Lives; and Colleges That Create Futures by the Princeton Review.
THIS WEEK: URSINUS COLLEGE
(One of the Colleges That Change Lives and the Fiske Guide)
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Enrollment: 1,627
Acceptance Rate: 83%
DETAILS: Ursinus is located in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, about 40 minutes west of Philadelphia. General education requirements at Ursinus fall under the college’s Plan for Liberal Studies, and they are grounded in the assumption that while individuals have intrinsic value, they also live in a community. Therefore, the core includes two semesters of the Common Intellectual Experience — a course that explores topics from Plato to Buddhist scripture to Nietzsche — as well as requirements in science, culture, and history. Students also engage in at least one independent learning experience — a research project, an internship, study abroad, or student teaching — before graduation, and they must complete a capstone course in their major. stringent; their independent projects are evaluated by outside examiners.
The most popular majors are business and economics, biology, psychology, and media and communication studies.
Student Perspective: “Ursinus’s culture is one of inquisitive learning through experimentation and discussion with peers that brings students together in a small campus atmosphere.”
