Pine Manor College (PMC) is a private, liberal arts women's college located in Chestnut Hill, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1911 and currently serves almost 500 students, 75% of whom live on the 60-acre (240,000 m²) campus.

Most diverse[link]

PMC was rated the nation's most racially diverse liberal arts college by U.S. News and World Reports, with only 13% of the student body identifying themselves as white (Zezima 2010).

The school also promotes diversity of social classes: Three out of five students qualify for Pell Grants, non-repayable federal funds given to low-income students (Khadaroo 2010). Two-thirds of students are from Massachusetts; one quarter are from other states, and the remaining students are from outside the country (Princeton Review).

Admissions[link]

Admissions relies less on SAT-I scores or grade point averages, and more on the applicants' life experiences, with an emphasis on perseverance in the face of adversity (Zezima 2010). The average grade point average from high school was 2.4 (Princeton Review).

Costs[link]

Although a private college, PMC's total cost is about two-thirds of what private colleges in New England typically charge (Khadaroo 2010). Most students receive some form of financial aid (Zezima 2010).

Academics[link]

PMC offers nine majors: Biology, business administration, communications, English, history and culture, liberal studies, psychology, social and political systems, and visual arts.

Upon graduation, students receive the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Associate of Arts, or the Associate of Science.

Within each major, students can pick their own concentration from a list of more than 50 options.[2] For example, a student majoring in English can concentrate on creative writing or English education, while a student majoring in visual arts can concentrate on graphic design. According to the Princeton Review, the most popular majors at Pine Manor are business administration, communications, and psychology (Princeton Review).

PMC also offers a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. Students in PMC's low-residency MFA Program may concentrate in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or writing for children and young adults.

Pine Manor alumnae represent 60 countries and all 50 U.S. states.

Athletics[link]

PMC is a Division III member of the NCAA. Students compete in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference in the sports of basketball, cross country, lacrosse, softball, soccer, tennis, and volleyball. The mascot is the Gator.

History[link]

Pine Manor College, originally Pine Manor Junior College, was part of the Dana Hall School in Wellesley center. In 1965 it moved to a 78-acre (320,000 m²) estate in Chestnut Hill. The estate, then known as Roughwood, was the residence of Ernest B. Dane. E.B. Dane was president of the Brookline Savings and Trust. Many of the school's buildings are original to the estate and have been renovated to accommodate the college.

The women's college was founded in 1911, at a time when even wealthy women were generally denied access to higher education, except at women-only institutions (Zezima 2010). Faced with declining enrollment in the 1990s, PMC decided to market itself to underrepresented and underprivileged women, who might not otherwise have the opportunity to attend college. Since then, enrollment has doubled (Zezima 2010).

Notable people[link]

• Joan Wallace-Benjamin, former trustee
• Frederick Carlos Ferry, Jr., former president (1956–1974)
• Karyn Kupcinet, actor
• Dennis Lehane, author and a director of Pine Manor's MFA program
• Hillary B. Smith, Daytime Emmy-winning actor
• Pauline Tompkins, alumna and first female president of Cedar Crest College
• Dorothy McGuire, alumna and Academy Award-nominated actress
• Wendy Diamond, Television personality and founder and editor-in-chief of Animal Fair magazine
• Busty Heart, Entertainer and strip club owner, former stripper
• Alison (Cunha) Fornash, alumna, former Admissions Counselor, writer, "Boston's Best Blogger"

References[link]

• Khadaroo, Stacy Teicher (13 December 2010). "How a College President Toppled the Ivory Tower". Christian Science Monitor. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/1213/How-a-college-president-toppled-the-ivory-tower. 
• "Report on Pine Manor College". The Princeton Review. http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/schoolsays.asp?category=1&listing=1024011&LTID=1. Retrieved 15 December 2010. 
• Zezima, Kate (30 May 2010). "Chestnut Hill Journal: Women’s Colleges Shift Gaze to Less Well-Off". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/education/30pinemanor.html. Retrieved 2010-05-30. 

External links[link]

• Pine Manor College
• Pine Manor Athletics

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Located in suburban Philadelphia, "Manor College" is a two-year institution offering transfer and career-oriented programs to traditional age and adult students. Drawing on its Catholic heritage and strong focus on the individual student, the College prepares students seeking to transfer to a four-year college or embark on a career through its challenging academic programs and academic support services. Manor College is a distinctive option to community colleges as a small private college with faculty and staff dedicated to student success in and out of the classroom.

History[link]

Manor College was founded in 1947 by the Byzantine Ukrainian Sisters of Saint Basil the Great. It is located in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. In 1959, Manor College was chartered and incorporated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The college was approved by the State Council of Education Department of Instruction on June 17, 1964. The legal governing body of Manor College is the Board of Trustees, which is composed of twenty-one members, including lay men and women from the business and professional communities and religious Sisters of the Order of Saint Basil the Great.

Heritage[link]

Manor College is related to the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Manor's objective to foster an awareness and appreciation of the Ukrainian heritage and culture is accomplished through its on-campus Ukrainian Heritage Studies Center which was established in 1977. The UHSC encompasses four major areas: Academic Studies, a Ukrainian Library, a museum collection of Ukrainian traditional arts and an Archives Division. Many Ukrainian immigrants looking for higher education in America attend Manor College as a method of easing their transition into American culture. Ukrainian immigrants comprise approximately fifteen percent of the student population.

Catholic education[link]

Respect for the individual and service to the community are a reflection of Manor College's Catholic, Basilian and Ukrainian Heritage. Manor College offers a transformative educational experience where students flourish academically and socially. In this supportive environment, Manor College students are mentored and taught by faculty focused on their academic, spiritual, moral, and social growth. Manor College provides its students with an education that is based upon the Judeo-Christian tradition. Manor's mission statement believes that the ideals and values of this tradition are an integral part of human existence and give purpose and meaning to education.

Academic Programs[link]

Manor College prepares its students, through the first two years of college, with the choice to transfer to a 4-year institution or become gainfully employed through its many vocationally oriented programs such as paralegal, dental hygiene, veterinary technology, and early child care. Students seeking exceptional preparation in career fields are immersed in classroom and laboratory experiences that encourage participation and hands-on learning, leading to a distinctive understanding of the theoretical and practical elements of their respective career field. Manor College excels at providing students exceptional academic programming, leading to a readiness for transfer to and completion of bachelor degrees at four-year institutions. This experience is distinguished by small, nurturing classroom environments that encourage student participation and expression.

Sports[link]

The Manor College intercollegiate athletics program offers a variety of competitive programs including basketball (men's and women's), soccer (men's and women's), and volleyball (women's). The teams are known as the "Blue Jays". Manor College's athletic teams compete in the National Junior College Athletic Association's 19th Region.

See also[link]

• Basil of Caesarea
• Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

External links[link]

• Manor College

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Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi, 2009
Born	Ali Velshi (1969-10-29) October 29, 1969 (age 42) Nairobi, Kenya
Occupation	Broadcast journalist, Author
Agent	N.S. Beinstock, New York, Greater Talent Network (literary)
Notable credit(s)	American Morning Anderson Cooper 360° Election Center The Situation Room Your Money host Issue #1 host
Title	Anchor Chief Business Correspondent
Religion	Ismaili Muslim
Relatives	Murad Velshi (father)
Website
Ali Velshi

Ali Velshi (born October 29, 1969) is a Canadian-American television journalist best known for his work on CNN. He is CNN's Chief Business Correspondent, Anchor of CNN's Your Money and a co-host of CNN International's weekday business show World Business Today.

Personal life[link]

Born in Nairobi, Kenya and raised in Toronto, Ontario, he is the son of Murad Velshi, the first Canadian of Indian origin elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and his wife Mila, who grew up in South Africa. He is an Ismaili Muslim of Indian descent^[1] and earned a degree in religious studies^[2] from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1994.^[3] During his time at Queen's he made news by organizing protests against Preston Manning and Canada's Reform Party. In 2010, Velshi was awarded the Queen's University Alumni Achievement Award. He previously attended Toronto's Northern Secondary School. Velshi was married briefly in his 20s, and in 2009, he married again. This time, Velshi married New York-born hedge fund manager Lori Wachs,^[4] the president of Philadelphia-based Cross Ledge Investments, whom he met when she was a guest on his show.^[5]

Career[link]

In 1996, Velshi was awarded a fellowship to the United States Congress from the American Political Science Association. In this capacity he worked with Lee H. Hamilton, then a Democratic Representative from Indiana.^[2]

Television[link]

In Toronto, Velshi began his professional reporting career as a General Assignment reporter for CFTO. He later became a business reporter and anchor for CablePulse 24 and its sister station CityTV. In 1999, he joined Report on Business Television, (now BNN - Business News Network) Canada's first all-business news specialty channel. Velshi hosted "The Business News", Canada's first prime time business news hour.

CNN[link]

Velshi moved to the U.S. in September 2001, joining business news channel CNNfn in New York City. He anchored several shows including "Insights", "Business Unusual", "Street Sweep", "[Your Money]", and he co-hosted "The Money Gang" with his friend Pat Kiernan before the network closed down in December 2004.

Reassigned to the main CNN network, he remained a business anchor and reporter posted, initially, to CNN's early morning program, "Daybreak." In 2005, Velshi hosted 13 hour-long episodes of The Turnaround, a reality television show, during which he traveled across America, introducing small business owners who were facing challenges or seeking to grow their businesses, to high-profile mentors who helped the small business owners develop a plan for success.^[6]

After "The Turnaround", Velshi was assigned to the newly-launched "The Situation Room" from 2005 to 2006. Velshi joined "American Morning" as business correspondent in late 2006 and then again as co-anchor in 2011.

In 2008, Velshi undertook a cross-country road-trip aboard the CNN Election Express, during which he travelled from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Los Angeles, California, stopping along the way to discuss money issues with Americans. Velshi also spent 10 days riding the CNN Election Express through rural Texas before that state's March 4, 2008 primaries.

Velshi regularly substitute anchors for CNN/U.S. programs such as "American Morning". On Saturday and Sunday he co-hosts a business program called Your Money.

Velshi also hosts CNN's "Energy Hunt" which took him to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and to the Oil Sands of Canada in 2008.

Tragic events during 2008 made Velshi a household name. He began the year reporting from the now-destroyed Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan,^[7] after the killing of Benazir Bhutto.^[8] During coverage of Hurricanes Gustav^[9] and Ike, Velshi appeared on air day and night on location from hurricane-stricken areas, as the storms hit. Velshi's hurricane reporting started in 2005 during Katrina, where he reported live during the evacuation of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and then from damaged oil facilities in Eastern Texas and Southern Louisiana

During the financial crisis of 2008, Velshi again appeared on television frequently throughout the day on shows like American Morning and Anderson Cooper 360°, and took viewers' live calls during special editions of Your Money, and during his weekly call-in radio show.

Being Muslim, Velshi regularly acknowledges his Islamic background and perspective when discussions involve Islam. Velshi has strongly defended the Muslim community's right to build a mosque and Islamic center (Park51) near Ground Zero in New York City.^[10] Velshi has also been critical of Peter King's hearings on Islamic radicalization in the United States as a form of Islamophobia and branding King as "naive." Velshi supports the separation of mosque and state and rejects "Political Islam" which requires the implementation of Sharia law.^[11][12] He has been in turn accused of downplaying the role that mainstream Islamic jurisprudence, scholarship, and interpretation play in the development and application of radical Islam and branding negative statements about Islam as biased.^[13][14][15]

Writings[link]

Velshi is represented by the New York talent agency N.S. Beinstock, and by speaking agency Greater Talent Network. His first book, Gimme My Money Back: Your Guide to Beating the Financial Crisis, was published on January 2, 2009. His second book, "How to Speak Money: The Language & Knowledge You Need Now," co-authored by long-time friend & co-anchor Christine Romans, was released by John Wiley & Sons in November, 2011. Velshi writes a monthly column for Money Magazine & for "Delta Sky" Magazine.

Awards and recognitions[link]

In 2010, Velshi was awarded the Queen's University Alumni Achievement Award; the highest award given to Queen's University Alumni. Also in 2010, Velshi's in-depth reporting for CNN's "How the Wheels Came Off" about the near collapse of the U.S. Auto Industry was honored with a National Headliner Award for Business & Consumer Reporting. Velshi anchored CNN's global breaking news coverage of an attempted terror attack on a Delta flight into Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, for which CNN was nominated for a 2010 Emmy award.

Pop culture[link]

Referencing Velshi's signature bald pate, the comedian Jon Stewart has referred to Velshi as the "Hairless Prophet of Doom" on The Daily Show,^[16] -- the "H-Pod" moniker is now frequently repeated by others.

Stephen Colbert referred to Velshi as "CNN's business reporter from our hairless, raceless future," on an episode of The Colbert Report wherein he discussed the recent financial crisis.

In addition to appearing on The Daily Show Velshi appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on October 3, 2008, during the global financial crisis, and on The View on February 4, 2009 after the launch of his first book on the crisis.

Memberships and non-profit work[link]

Velshi is a member of the Economic Club of New York,^[17] the New York Financial Writers Association, the The Paley Center for Media, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago History Museum, and a member of the Grand Challenges Advisory Committee of the National Academy of Engineering.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Ali Velshi on Twitter
• Ali Velshi at the Internet Movie Database
• Ali Velshi, CNN.com biography
• Your Money
• Samantha Ettus interviews Ali Velshi