Pine Manor College, a small liberal arts school in Massachusetts, has responded to the intense financial and operational pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic in a unique way: by partnering with nearby Boston College to become the Pine Manor Institute for Student Success. Peter Alcock, a Pine Manor trustee who has been a key driver of positioning PMC for this initiative, sat down with ACTA’s Armand Alacbay to share lessons learned that will prove instructive for many other institutions around the country.
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Hanna Stotland, JD is an admissions consultant specializing in educational crisis management. She has helped students overcome virtually every kind of educational interruption, from mental illness to academic failure to disciplinary and criminal consequences. Ms. Stotland sat down for a Q&A with Dr. Jonathan Pidluzny, Vice President of Academic Affairs at ACTA, to discuss the admissions […]
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