![]() public institutions in placing its graduates in the top five business, medical and law schools in the country.īut while its alumni are lauded, the liberal arts college, often perceived as a hotbed of radicalism, remains somewhat at odds with its genteel, conservative surroundings and poles apart from the Republican-controlled Legislature on which it relies for funding. In 2003, the Wall Street Journal ranked New College second among all U.S. In academic circles, the school is highly regarded. ![]() On Monday, New College opened its doors to a new class for the 40th time. "The city had a certain kind of expectation of this new start-up college and the students, of course, had a totally different expectation of their role as students." ![]() "There was a tension between the students and the city," said Misemer, a member of the charter class and chairman of the school's foundation board. The 18-year-old's destination was Sarasota, a community that liked the idea of being a college town but was not quite ready for the 101 idealistic students that descended on New College from all corners of the country. ![]() SARASOTA COUNTY - In 1964, Ken Misemer traveled by bus from Missouri to a new experimental liberal arts school in a sleepy, conservative Florida town. ![]()
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