University of La Verne
After 125 years, the University of La Verne is in so many ways a vastly different academic landscape from the place it was seventy-five or even fifty years ago, a testament to the demands of the student marketplace as well as the farsighted administrators and boards of directors who guided it through the decades. But […]
Moorestown Friends School
https://bookhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/moorestown-slider.png Doing Well and Doing Good chronicles the fascinating 225- year history of the New Jersey-based school and its evolution as an institution that values academic rigor on the same level as a student’s spiritual and ethical education. Students do well in the classroom and do good inside and outside the school community. The faces may […]
Ramaz School
https://bookhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ramaz-slider.png The Ramaz School—Honoring Tradition, Empowering the Future commemorates the school’s seventy-fifth anniversary, and tells the story of Ramaz from its beginning. In 1937, Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein founded the Ramaz Academy on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, naming it for Rabbi Moses Zevulun Margolies (the “RaMaZ”), spiritual leader of Congregation Kehillath Jeshurun (KJ). The school started […]
Lauralton Hall
https://bookhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/lauralton-hall-slider.png Lauralton Hall, an independent school for women in Milford, Connecticut, was founded in 1905 by the Sisters of Mercy in the former home of one of the town’s well-known citizens. Generations later, Lauralton Hall still maintains early traditions within the environment of a progressive and challenging academic environment. Its all-women student body not only […]
Endicott College
This beautiful small college, which sits on Atlantic Ocean shore outside of Boston, has so much more going for it than its bucolic location. From the beginning, it has been unique, providing the first college internships in the country and in later years, forging partnerships with world-class Boston-area corporations to expand the breadth of the […]
The University of Missouri at St. Louis
This 50-year-old arm of the University of Missouri had quickly made a name for itself and wanted a book to showcase its growth and accomplishments. But instead of a topical or chronological history, the university developed thematic chapters that told a broader story. For instance, the chapter entitled “Synergy,” told about the school’s relationship with […]
Emory University
https://bookhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/emorylaw3dslider.png Emory, now close to the end of its second century, has sought to square action with rhetoric and model the best aims of education. The forty-four chapters in this book tell story after story of an academic community striving to exercise the courage of its ideals and its questions. For more than a decade […]
University of Dayton
While this proud Ohio institution has an accomplished history, it sought a book that mostly honored the accomplishments of its first lay president, James Curran, who was retiring. And that was a long list, from new schools and programs to the establishment of the China Institute and other advances. The University of Dayton took the […]
The University of Scranton
An educational beacon, with unbreakable Jesuit bonds, the University of Scranton is not only an economic engine for this Pennsylvania city but is by any measure a top-ranked college that is a leading producer of Fulbright Scholars. At once rooted in the esteemed tradition of Jesuit education, it is also forward thinking and welcoming to […]