News Releases
August 2, 2006
For Immediate Release
Contacts: Bob Hieronymus (208) 882-1566 or bobh@nsa.edu; Caitlin Anderson, (800) 526-7022 ext.168 or media@isi.org
NSA Honored as One of 50 “All-American Colleges”
What do the
University
of
Chicago
,
Hillsdale
College, Princeton University, and
New
Saint Andrews
College
all have in common?
They are among the fifty colleges and universities honored in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s (ISI) soon-to-be-released publication of All-American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-Fashioned Liberals, and People of Faith (1-932236-88-0). The 416-page guide will be available in stores throughout the country later this month.
“Our national accreditation last year confirmed the quality of our program and put us on the higher education map,” said New Saint Andrews’ President, Dr. Roy Atwood. “Now this national recognition puts us in the company of some of the most highly regarded institutions in the country… and in the living room of thousands of families looking for the kind of unique college education that NSA and the
Moscow
community provides.”
All-American Colleges provides personal, in-depth profiles of fifty highly recommended schools and programs. At each of these diverse institutions, students who identify themselves as religious believers, conservatives, or old-fashioned liberals will find programs that connect in a special way with the core values of the American founding and the vibrant intellectual traditions of the West—schools and programs that are, in fact, often transformative. Based on extensive interviews with students, faculty, and administrators, the profiles in All-American Colleges extend
ISI’s coverage of contemporary academia to accentuate the positive—while including necessary caveats about the unfortunate aspects of each school. The result is a unique new guide that parents, students, and educators will not want to miss.
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John Zmirak is editor in chief of both
All-American
Colleges
and ISI’s nationally acclaimed college guide, Choosing the
Right
College
. He received his B.A. in Religion and Literature at
Yale
University
; he earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D in English at
Louisiana
State
University
. His writing has appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, the Weekly Standard, the American Conservative, FrontPage Magazine, and First Things. He is a regular commentator on national talk radio and has appeared on FOX News. He previously served as a reporter at the National Catholic Register and senior editor at Faith & Family magazine.
The Intercollegiate Studies Instiitute is a highly-respected non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt educational organization whose purpose is to convey to successive generations of college youth a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free and virtuous society.
New
Saint Andrews
, founded in 1994, is a limited-enrollment, non-residential college providing an intellectually rigorous classical education firmly grounded in the Christian tradition. The College, which serves students from 30 different states and 20 different Christian denominations, is located in historic downtown
Moscow
on
Friendship Square
.
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8 July 2006
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bob Hieronymus (208) 882-1566 or bobh@nsa.edu
Colleges hosts African Potluck
,
Friday, July 14
Community members are invited to an African Potluck Dinner on Friday evening, July 14, from 7 to 9 p.m. at
Friendship Square
in
Moscow
.
The event is the first in a series of community programs sponsored by the downtown College.
Attendees are encouraged to bring an African main dish of beef or chicken and a starch (rice or maize meal) or greens (salads or peas), but any fare will do. Plates, flatware, and drinks will be provided. The event will include comments from Csaba Leidenfrost, a missionary to the
Ivory Coast
, and the Tirimas, of
Kenya
.
Many of the dishes prepared for the potluck will come from Simba's African Cookbook, which benefits AIDS victims in
Kenya
.
For more information about the event, call or email Bev Atwood at the College at 882-1566 or batwood@nsa.edu.
Link here for a short selection of African recipes (pdf) from Simba Tirima's cookbook.
12 September 2005
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bob Hieronymus (208) 882-1566 or bobh@nsa.edu
College gets high marks from TRACS accreditation team
http://www.nsa.edu/news/newsupdates
New
Saint Andrews
College
received a very positive evaluation report from the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) site visiting team last week.
"The school meets, and in many areas far exceeds, the TRACS standards for the educational program," the TRACS report concluded. The team examined more than 25 areas of the College's programs, personnel, and operations, but identified only six minor areas involving procedures and policies that needed some additional attention.
The TRACS evaluation team was headed by Dr. Wayne Freeberg, former executive director of the Florida Department of Education's State Board of Independent Colleges and Universities under six different governors. The site visit also included a conference call between Dr. Freeberg, TRACS representative Dr. David Beck, and College President Roy Atwood with Dr. Marilyn Davis, the Idaho State Board of Education's Chief Academic Officer, on Friday afternoon. The positive report puts the College in a very strong position to receive full accreditation at the next meeting of the TRACS Accreditation Commission in November.
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12 September 2005
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bob Hieronymus (208) 882-1566 or bobh@nsa.edu
Survey: Downtown parking plentiful during biz hours
If having
New
Saint Andrews
College
located downtown is eating up all the parking, you wouldn’t know it by looking at a recent parking survey. The limited-enrollment College’s on-going study of downtown parking showed the Jackson Street Parking Lot being used at only 62.9 percent of capacity, on average. And at no time did the number of occupied parking spaces exceed 75.5 percent of the lot’s capacity.
“On average, a motorist had 54 parking spaces to choose from in the
Jackson Street
lot,” explained New Saint Andrews’ Executive Vice President Bob Hieronymus. Since the beginning of the school year Hieronymus and his staff have counted empty spaces several times a day at random intervals.
“This is particularly timely in light of the Planning and Zoning discussions about schools and the impact they have on the availability of parking, said New Saint Andrews President Roy Atwood, Ph.D. “We’re quite prepared to talk about parking downtown and welcome the opportunity to do so. But unreasonable parking conditions shouldn’t be used as yet another means of harassing the College.”
“Your best bet to find a spot in the
Jackson Street
lot is over near Book People,” added Hieronymus. The spaces in the bay at the far southern end of the lot were the least used, with only a 43.2 percent usage rate average. “We think that’s particularly insightful, considering statements that have been made to the contrary.”
There are 147 parking spaces across the seven bays between the Moscow Hotel and the Royal Motor Inn, not including the handicapped-designated spaces. The survey went unannounced to employees and students at the College. For more information on the survey, contact Hieronymus at 882-1566.
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