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Nazareth Earns National Accolades Nazareth College is one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2013 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 377 Colleges. Only about 15% of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and three colleges outside the U.S. are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review’s flagship college guide. It includes detailed profiles of the colleges with rating scores for all schools in eight categories, plus ranking lists of top 20 schools in the book in 62 categories based on The Princeton Review’s surveys of students attending the colleges. Nazareth is also ranked number 21 on a list of the Top 100 Master’s Universities by the 2012 Washington Monthly College Rankings. Those rankings also placed Nazareth at number 2 on the list of community service participation. Washington Monthly’s rankings rate schools based on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories: social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and Ph.D.s), and service (encouraging students to give something back to their country). Finally, U.S. News & World Report has again ranked Nazareth College in the top tier of colleges and universities in the category of Best Regional Universities—North in its 2013 edition of U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges. Nazareth also made the guide’s list for A+ Schools for B Students, where top quality institutions look for more than just grades on applications. “Nazareth College is proud to be included once again on the list of best regional universities in the north region by a widely respected publication like the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges guide,” says President Daan Braveman. “We are providing students with the highest quality experience through our liberal arts core, professional learning, and fieldwork opportunities that prepare them for successful careers and meaningful lives.”
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Taylor Sculpture Enhances Art Center
he Nazareth College Arts Center main entrance now features a sculpture by acclaimed glass artist Michael Taylor. The new work, donated to the College by the artist, is titled Right Place/Right Time and conveys the cycle of student life on campus from matriculation to graduation. “The piece speaks of student accomplishments from the foundation years to the assertion of independence of personal interests,” says Taylor. “Each arm of the 18 objects is at a different place and a different time corresponding to primary locations on the analogue clock and the compass. The work is ultimately about being prepared for the inevitable moment of being at the right place at the right time.” Taylor was head of the glass department at RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences for 20 years. His work appears in public and private collections around the world, including the Museum of Art and Design, New York; the National Collection of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va. Sculptor Michael Taylor installing his glass artwork Right Place/Right Time in the Arts Center.
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