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I became a Professor Emeritus after serving 29 years as a recreational therapy faculty member at Indiana University. I'm a long-time Hoosier, having grown up in Hanover, Indiana. My RT practitioner work was in psych/mental health. After completing my Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, my first faculty position was at the University of North Texas. RT has been a wonderful profession for me as I have had the opportunity to serve as an author and national leader.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Party Schools & Stone-Cold Sober Schools

The Princeton Review recently published the results of its survery of 120,000 college students. Two lists the Review publishes are the "Top Party Schools" and the "Stone-Cold Sober Schools."

In this post, I've saved the RT students time by identifying the universities with RT programs that made both lists. Here goes....

The Top 10 Party Schools list was headed by West Virginia University, followed by the University of Mississippi and the University of Texas at Austin. At number 4 was the University of Florida. The University of Georgia was 5th. I don't believe that any of these schools offer RT.

Never fear! Universities with RT programs made the list! The number 6 party school was Penn State University. At 7th was the University of New Hampshire. At number 8 came Indiana University, Bloomington.

Other schools on the Top 10 Party Schools list were Ohio University, Athens, and the University of California - Santa Barbara.

Three other universities with RT programs did make the list of the "Top 20" party schools. The University of Iowa ranked 12th. Gene Hayes will be proud to know that the University of Tennessee finished 15th. And Arizona State University came in at 17th.

A couple of universities with RT programs made the "Stone-Cold Sober Schools" list. Ramon Zabriskie will be pleased to know that Brigham Young University ranked number 1. Glen Van Andel can take pride that Calvin College finished 12th on the "Stone-Cold" list.

1 Comments:

Blogger charlie said...

West Virginia U for many years have been ranked as the top party school in the United States. One year the Playboy magazine chose not to rank WVU because they believed that WVU was a professional party school!

Over the past 12 years or so the administration at WVU has done quite a lot to change the image of WVU being a party school. They have provided many recreation opportunities, free food in the Mountainlair (the student union) on weekend nights, and much more. I think its working but its hard to shed this image.

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