Saint Michael's College

Listed below are some of Saint Michael’s many recognitions of the past five years by unbiased, outside sources, through rankings, grants or awards. 

• Saint Michael's was selected to appear in the 2006 edition of The Princeton Review's Best 361 Colleges guidebook.
  
  
• U.S. News & World Report has ranking Saint Michael’s in as one of the top 15 Master's universities in the North for for 15 consecutive years.
  
  
• Saint Michael’s was invited, after a three-year review, to join the elite group of 270 colleges and universities nationwide with Phi Beta Kappa chapters on campus, making Saint Michael’s one of only 20 Catholic colleges in the country with a chapter and one of only four in New England (Saint Michael’s, Holy Cross, Boston College and Fairfield).
  
  
• Newsweek/Kaplan named Saint Michael’s College one of 30 colleges deemed a “Hidden Treasure” on the basis of information from Kaplan’s National Guidance Counselor Survey.  “Hidden Treasures” were colleges recommended most frequently as being “small schools that deserve national recognition.”
  
  
• In June 2003 Saint Michael’s was selected to appear in a new admissions guidebook and Web site called Colleges of Distinction, which profiles 150 colleges throughout the United States that “excel in engaging students, offering great teaching, providing a vibrant campus community and resulting in successful outcomes for their students.”
  
  
• Saint Michael’s was featured in both the New York Times and the Boston Globe Magazine as the recipient of the personal papers and large library of Yale scholar and critic Harold Bloom. “I wanted a place that would maintain my library as a kind of humanistic legacy,” said Bloom.
  
  
• Winners of the Vermont Professor of the Year award have been Saint Michael’s College professors in three of the last five years.  Our winning faculty include associate political science professor Dr. Patricia Siplon, history professor, Dr. Frank Nicosia in 2000 and anthropology associate professor Dr. Adrie Kusserow in 2002.
  
  
• Saint Michael's was named 2004 Business of the Year (20 or more employees) by the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce.
  
  
• The U.S. Department of Education awarded Saint Michael's a $713,000 grant to develop a language-acquisition training program. The grant funds a program designed to address needs of children in northern Vermont who must learn English at the same time as they progress through the public schools.
  
  
• Saint Michael’s physics professor, Dr. Alain Brizard was awarded a $50,280 grant from the National Science Foundation in a collaborative project that includes graduate students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his Saint Michael’s students. He is training them in the use of techniques he has developed that produce descriptions of the behavior of plasmas (ionized gas like neon, stars, flames, etc.) across time and space.
  
  
• Madeleine May Kunin, Governor of Vermont from 1985 to 1991, accepted a three-year appointment in September 2003 as distinguished visiting professor of political science Saint Michael’s College and the University of Vermont. 
  
  
• The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program named Saint Michael’s College associate professor of political science Dr. Jeffrey Ayres as the first professor to fill the Fulbright-Carleton University Chair in North American Studies for the winter 2004 semester at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
  
  
• Saint Michael’s was featured in The New York Times in a story and photo that ran May 7, 2003, titled “In This Residence, College Boys Can Be Men.” The story reported on the “Men and Masculinity” theme house on campus and its educational impact on first-year and upper level students.
  
  
• U.S. Agency for International Development awarded Saint Michael’s College and LakeNet a $500,000 grant titled “Towards a World Lake Basin Management Initiative: Documenting Lessons Learned, Sharing Experience and Providing Technical Assistance.” 
   
• The National Science Foundation awarded Saint Michael’s College a $200,000 grant from their CSEMS (computer science, engineering and math scholarships) program to fund undergraduate scholarships.  Saint Michael’s was granted the award at the maximum award level of $200,000, which, according to NSF, is a rarity.
  
  
• The State of Vermont Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services presented the Children & Family Services Commissioner’s Community Award to the Saint Michael’s College student volunteer program, MOVE (Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts), for “outstanding service and contribution to the welfare of Vermont’s children” on July 2, 2001.
  
  
• The Vermont Chamber of Commerce, named Saint Michael’s College the 2001 Exporter of the Year for making significant contributions to “Vermont’s international trade stature through competing with hard work, innovation and vision in the global marketplace” by the Saint Michael’s School for International Students.
  
  
• The U.S. Department of Education's Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program awarded Saint Michael’s College a $93,000 grant in March of 2001 for a Global Studies Program.
  
  
• The Pew Charitable Trust and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in November 2000, named Saint Michael’s College one of 34 exemplary institutions in the NSSE, National Survey of Student Engagement: The College Student Report.  Questionnaires were filled out by 63,000 undergraduate students at 276 colleges and universities to assess “the extent to which colleges encourage actual learning” and Saint Michael’s emerged with high ratings in the areas surveyed: academic challenge, collaborative learning, student-faculty interaction, internships and study-abroad opportunities, and campus support in non-academic areas.