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Prescott College
Prescott College, founded in 1966, built its academic identity around environmental studies and experiential, field-based learning from its founding, with students frequently completing coursework through extended wilderness expeditions and direct environmental fieldwork rather than exclusively traditional classroom instruction. The college's small size and its self-directed, competency-based academic model, in which students work closely with individual faculty advisers to design significant portions of their own course of study, give Prescott a distinctly alternative educational structure relative to more conventionally organized liberal arts colleges. Prescott's environmental studies, sustainable food systems, and outdoor education programs draw directly on the college's high-desert Arizona setting, and its adventure education program trains students for careers as wilderness guides and outdoor educators through direct field-based coursework. The college's alternative, self-directed academic model and its explicit environmental and sustainability focus have made Prescott a distinctive choice among students specifically seeking a nontraditional liberal arts education built around direct environmental engagement rather than a more conventional lecture-and-seminar curriculum.
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Arizona State University
Arizona State University, founded in 1885, has grown into one of the largest public universities in the country by enrollment, and its designation by US News & World Report as the most innovative school in the country for multiple consecutive years reflects a deliberate institutional strategy built around access and scale rather than traditional selectivity. The university's W. P. Carey School of Business and its journalism school, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, have each built strong national reputations, and ASU's fully online degree programs, offered at scale through partnerships including edX, have made it one of the leading providers of online public university education in the country. ASU's explicit institutional charter, adopted under longtime president Michael Crow, commits the university to being measured by "whom it includes" rather than "whom it excludes," a philosophy that's driven ASU's rapid enrollment growth and its self-positioning as a deliberately less selectivity-focused alternative to more traditionally exclusive research universities. The university's Tempe campus and its continued rapid growth in research funding, despite its size-focused rather than exclusivity-focused institutional philosophy, have made ASU one of the largest and fastest-growing major research universities in the country over the past two decades.
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