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VERMONT
January 6, 2018
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Report: Middlebury great for grads, but Champlain safest campus By Lou Varricchio THE EAGLE
MIDDLEBURY | Vermont’s best colleges received the royal treatment by the website WalletHub. The online personal-finance site just published it’s 2018’s Best College & University Rankings, along with separate rankings for colleges and universities. “With years of state budget cuts to higher education adversely affecting the cost and quality of schools and research showing that public institutions can outperform private colleges in terms of graduates’ career outcomes... (we) compared nearly 1,000 higher-education institutions in the U.S. based on 26 key measures grouped into seven categories, such as student selectivity, cost and financing and career outcomes. The data set ranges from student-faculty ratio to graduation rate to post-attendance median salary,” according to Diana Popa of WalletHub. WalletHub named and ranked the top seven colleges and universities in Vermont: 1. Middlebury College, 2. University of Vermont, 3. Champlain College, 4. Johnson State College, 5. Castleton University, 6. Southern Vermont College, and 7. Lyndon State College. “With the top schools are also how each performed in certain metrics,” Popa said. The top three performers appear below. Middlebury College (First=Best) First in admission rate, seventh in net cost, first in student-faculty ratio, fifth in oncampus crime, second in gender and racial diversity, first in graduation rate, and first in post-attendance median salary. However, actions by anti-free speech students from Middlebury College who disrupted a planned lecture by guest speaker, political scientist and author Dr. Charles Murray in the McCullough Student Center, probably have not calmed the more cautious parents of prospective students. University of Vermont (First=Best) Third in admission rate, fourth in net cost, sixth in student-faculty ratio, sixth in oncampus crime, fourth in gender and racial diversity, second in
WalletHub named and ranked the top seven colleges and universities in Vermont: 1. Middlebury College, 2. University of Vermont, 3. Champlain College, 4. Johnson State College, 5. Castleton University, 6. Southern Vermont College, and 7. Lyndon State College. Pictured: Middlebury College protest last March. Photo by Lou Varricchio graduation rate, and second in post-attendance median salary. Champlain College (First=Best) Fourth in admission rate, sixth in net cost, sixth in student-faculty ratio, first in on-
campus crime (Vermont’s safest campus), third in gender and racial diversity, third in graduation rate, and third in post-attendance median salary. ■
Family physician joins Bristol MHC
Dr. Brian Bates.
Photo courtesy B.U.
BRISTOL | Officials of the Mountain Health Center (MHC) in Bristol, a Federally-Qualified Health Center, announced that Brian Bates, M.D. ,will join the team of MHC health care providers on April 2. Dr. Bates is a board-certified family practice physician who will provide comprehensive primary care services to children, men and women of all ages. Dr. Bates grew up in Bethesda, Md.., He received his college education at Dartmouth College and his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed a residency training program in Family Medicine at Boston University Medical Center. During his residency, he received outpatient training at an urban community health center in Boston. He is a member
of the esteemed Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Since finishing his residency program in July, Dr. Bates has been employed as a teaching physician at Boston University School of Medicine. Martha Halnon, the Executive Director at MHC said, “We are thrilled to have Dr. Bates join us. We were particularly impressed with his commitment to primary care and the rural community-based, patient-focused mission of our Federally-Qualified Health Center.” Dr. Bates will provide acute and chronic care and minor surgical procedures for his patients. He is particularly interested in preventive medicine and health promotion. He has been trained to provide long-acting contraception (intrauterine devices, Nexplanon skin implants). He has received additional training in addiction management services and will provide
medication-assisted treatment with Suboxone. Dr. Frank Provato, medical director at MHC added, “It is a privilege to have a doctor of such high-caliber and enthusiasm as Dr. Bates become part of the talented and compassionate group of clinicians at MHC who have served Addison County for over 30 years.” Dr. Bates has broad interests. After graduating from college with a degree in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, he did research work and spent some time volunteering in Ethiopia. When he is not working, he enjoys spending time with his children, reading, gardening, beekeeping, exploring nature, and playing the mandolin. He will reside in Lincoln with his wife, Jenny Bates, who is a Certified Nurse Midwife, and their two daughters. ■
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