Vermont Business MagazineYale University is number one and the University of Vermont is number 27 in a national ranking of campus-based natural history museums.Best College Reviews, a ranking service for American colleges and universities, hasreleaseda list of the top 30 College Natural History Museums.Statistics and definitions were gathered from The American Alliance of Museums and school websites. The top universities generally were either elite and older schools in the East, small colleges with special collectionsor state universities out West.
Many educational thinkers and researchers lament the loss of a historic sense in an instant gratification culture.TSEliotonce wrote about this loss in his 1921 essay Tradition and Intellectual Talent. Perhaps there is something important to be considered there. Granted our rapidly changing society today's colleges and universities certainly offer opportunities to value history and knowledge.They function as hubs of research, art, and education, and many are home to natural history museums, harboring fossils, scientific records, and incredible displays of our world's history. We at Best College Reviews have scoured the nation and found the most vibrant university museums of natural history that our nation has to offer.
Nick Plato, the article's author, said this about the list: "Researching our country's colleges and universities continues to amaze me.Colleges have so much to offer, both to the student and many times, just as much to the community.There are many incredible museums, many of which are free of charge.As I researched I was continually moved and motivated to visit them myself."
27. University of Vermont – Perkins Geology Museum
The University of Vermont is a public research university and is the fifth college established in New England after Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown, founded in 1791. It is known as one of the original “Public Ivies,” a publicly funded university that provides an education comparable to those of the Ivy League. Nestled on the Trinity Campus in Delehanty Hall, is the Perkins Geology Museum, a museum dedicated to presenting geologic concepts and processes to students, scholars, and interested public in a manner that both informs and entertains. Visitors will enjoy perusing exhibits featuring the Charlotte Whale, dinosaur footprints, a Triceratops skull, as well as hands-on activities like digging for dinosaurs and identifying rock types.
The full list can be viewed here:http://www.bestcollegereviews.org/features/amazing-natural-history-museums/
The list of 30 schools includes (in alphabetical order):
Amherst College,Amherst, MA
Benedictine University,Lisle, IL
Brigham Young University,Provo, UT
College of Charleston,Charleston, SC
College ofIdaho,Caldwell, ID
Drexel University,Philadelphia, PA
Georgia Southern University,Statesboro, GA
Harvard University,Cambridge, MA
Humboldt State University,Arcata, CA
La Sierra University,Riverside, CA
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Sierra College,Rocklin, CA
University of Alaska Fairbanks,Fairbanks, AK
University of Arizona,Tucson, AZ
University of California Davis,Davis, CA
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
University of Delaware,Newark, DE
University of Iowa,Iowa City, IA
University of Kansas,Lawrence, KS
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
University of Montana, Missoula, MT
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
University of Oregon,Eugene, OR
University of Vermont,Burlington, VT
University of Wisconsin Madison,Madison, WI
University of Wyoming,Laramie, WY
Washington State University,Pullman, WA
Yale University,New Haven, CT
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Source:WOODBURN, Ore.,Jan. 19, 2016/PRNewswire/ -- Best College Reviews