Gustavus is small by design, but its ambitions spill well beyond the classroom. The wager is that close mentorship, a guaranteed real-world experience, and one unusually public science conference can make a 1,900-student college feel larger than its headcount.
On 27,000 acres in northwest Georgia, Berry College has turned a century-old work program into a modern career laboratory - and made the land itself part of the lesson.
At St. Norbert College, a 900-year tradition of communio now sits beside applied AI, cybersecurity and a five-year BBA-to-MBA path. The experiment is not to replace the liberal arts, but to make an old promise useful in a changing market.