Students Santiago Salinas ’05, Marjolaine J. Whittlesey ’05 and Sarah Bockian ’05 record water quality statistics for the Whitewater and Whitepaper: Canoeing and River Conservation class taught by COA law professor Ken Cline and COA zoology professor Helen Hess.
In the category of supportive campus environment, in which COA students were asked about the quality of relationships with other students and with faculty, and whether the environment provides the academic, social and other supports a student needs, COA first-year students similarly placed the college high in the top 10 percent of colleges. Some other differences are especially indicative of the kind of education COA offers. At COA, 80 percent of first-year students said that they contributed to class discussions as opposed to 77 percent of students in other colleges; 87 percent of seniors said they put together ideas or concepts from different courses when completing assignments, vs. 66 percent of the national norm of students; and 86 percent said they discussed class ideas outside of class, vs. 72 percent of students elsewhere.
COA students rehearse for the annual Cultural Fandango show.
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