College Visits

College review by Beth Cassie DeSales University is a Catholic university in the Lehigh Valley with a focus on hands-on learning.  DeSales is relatively “new”, founded in 1964.  The campus is a [...]

College review by Beth Cassie Cedar Crest College is a small women’s college in the Lehigh Valley.  The campus is an arboretum, and the day I visited, everything was in full bloom. My tour [...]

College review by Beth Cassie I visited Lafayette College in Easton, PA on an unseasonably warm April day, and students were taking full advantage of the weather.  The campus is beautiful with [...]

College review by Beth Cassie “Do you have your hiking shoes on?” At every turn when I mentioned I was going to visit Lehigh this warning was issued.  True to its reputation, Lehigh is a vertical [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a pretty campus built on a hill. There is a small college town with standard college fare such as Dunkin Donuts, pizza shop, [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Bryant, located in Smithfield, RI, has a very pretty campus and is organized in a circle.  It looks like a very large corporate park with large quads and ponds [...]

North Miami CampusCollege review by Diane Forman I had the opportunity to visit Johnson and Wales while spending a few days in Miami with my husband.  The North Miami Campus is one of four [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich RISD is an urban campus located right in downtown Providence about a 5-minute uphill walk to Thayer St. (the college town around Brown University.)  The campus [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich As I sat in the gorgeous chapel with vaulted ceilings and stained glass windows, a music student practiced on the organ.  Spiritual music wafted throughout the [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Brown has a very pretty brick, urban campus with two main quads (one of them has a large gate of entry.)  Thayer Street sits adjacent to campus and is a mix of bars, [...]