Location The 420-acre campus is located on Boston’s North Shore in Wenham, MA, two miles from the Atlantic Ocean and 25 miles North of Boston.
Student Profile 1524 undergraduates (37% male, 63% female); 46 states and 32 nations represented.
Faculty Profile 97 full-time, 74 part-time, 171 total; 80 percent of full-time faculty have earned doctorates or most advanced degree in their field.
Residence Life Approximately 86 percent of students live on-campus in dormitories or college-owned apartments and houses.
Athletics NCAA, Division III, Commonwealth Coast Conference. 20 varsity sports (9 men’s: baseball, basketball, cross-country, indoor track and field (winter), outdoor track and field (spring), lacrosse, soccer, swimming, and tennis; 11 women’s: basketball, cross-country, field hockey, indoor track and field (winter), outdoor track and field (spring), lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, and volleyball).
Activity/Club/Organization Types Over 40 clubs and organizations. Academic, environmental, media/publications (newspaper/yearbook/literary journal), service, religious/spiritual, music (choral, symphony, instrumental), sport/recreational.
Costs and Aid Tuition: $29,310 Fees: $1,296 Room & Board: $8,434. 92% of undergraduate students receive financial aid. The average financial aid award is $18,773.
Financial Information Alumni giving rate: 20.05% Endowment: $22 million.
More Distinctions
Gordon was named to the John Templeton Honor Roll for Character Building Colleges, one of only 100 schools nationwide honored for presidential leadership, spiritual growth programs, and first-year programs.
The College is regularly listed in The Fiske Guide to Colleges, where Edward B. Fiske writes that Gordon College provides “an education that not only feeds the mind, but feeds the soul as well.”
Gordon is listed by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best national liberal arts colleges, one of only 218 schools in the United States so honored.
The Bennett Athletic and Recreational Facility was named one of Athletic Business Magazine’s “Facility of Merit Award” as one of the top-ten new facilities for 1997.
ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID
Gordon’s admissions office reviews several key aspects of the application. The primary considerations are evidence of strong academic promise and of a decision to follow Christ. Academic factors most heavily considered include standardized test scores, GPA, essay, personal and academic references, and an interview.
Gordon College offers several scholarship awards, both need-based and merit-based. Each year 93% of undergraduate students receive financial aid and the average financial aid award is $18,773.
The suggested deadline for application is March 1st and applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Further Admissions and Financial Aid information may be found at http://www.gordon.edu/admissions
CONTACT
Gordon College
255 Grapevine Road
Wenham, MA 01984
Phone: 978.927.2300
Fax: 978-867-4682
Lesley University
“Lesley students are encouraged to wake up the world by actively pursuing constructive change in all facets of society. Through internship experiences that begin freshman year, they acquire experience and leadership skills that impact their lives.”
Cambridge, MA
http://www.lesley.edu/lc - [email protected]
INTRODUCTION:
Let’s Wake up the World
A combination of expert faculty, stimulating classes, hands-on learning, career-focused internships and a wide variety of co-curricular choices challenges, inspires and prepares students to become catalysts and leaders in their professions and communities. Students develop an inner awareness among them to the needs of humanity and the skills to bring about constructive change. They are educated to serve in fields that positively impact lives and give hope.
4 DISTINCTIONS
ENGAGED STUDENTS
Lesley University’s commitment to experiential learning is unsurpassed. From internships to innovative one- and two-week travel study programs, to unique ecological programs that give students the opportunity to spend 4 semesters in different global environments, each Lesley student completes 450 – 650 hours of field study and learning…
Engaged Students
Lesley places an equal emphasis on citizenship and scholarship. Lesley students have as deep a commitment to community service as they do to learning. Accordingly, the university provides plenty of opportunities for linking academic challenges and experiences in the classroom with those gained in the world at large.
At Lesley, there is a strong belief that learning should take place in many places, not just in classrooms. Students have the opportunity to participate in a number of Lesley-affiliated programs off campus in the U.S. and abroad. Lesley offers a number of summer travel-study courses that are generally ten days to three weeks in length. Planned study tours are led by distinguished members of the faculty and offer students the chance to discover the history, culture, and art of various regions. Through study tours, students also gain an in-depth understanding of significant world events, including tours of the Cuban experience in education and the arts, and tours focused on the British experience, learning from the Holocaust, the traditions and cultures of the Southwest, as well as the exploration of the Amazon and the rain forest in Peru and Ecuador.
For students who are passionate about the environment, the Audubon Expedition Institute (AEI) at Lesley offers students a dynamic educational experience. The earth and all its diverse terrain serves as the classroom, and lessons are taught in states like Hawaii and Alaska, as well as countries such as Mexico and Canada. AEI is unlike any other college experience; students spend a semester traveling in independent learning communities with two to four faculty and fifteen to twenty students.
GREAT TEACHING
Not lectures - discussions. That’s the predominant model for classroom learning which is made easier by Lesley’s small class sizes. As a result, deep discussions and close interactions are common, with classroom discussions frequently tied back to each student’s out-of-classroom learning experiences…
Great Teaching
The teaching emphasis at Lesley is on exposing students to the real world through experiential learning opportunities. Internships are the hallmark of a Lesley education and are carefully interwoven into every program. Combined with small seminars, students embark on hands-on field experiences beginning their very first year. Through classroom discussions, students will find themselves challenging prior assumptions and using their experiences from internships to examine theory.
Classroom learning at Lesley is a collaborative effort between students and faculty. The focus is on discussions