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  • 2022 Fiske Guide to Best Colleges Includes Gonzaga

2022 Fiske Guide to Best Colleges Includes Gonzaga

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July 28, 2021
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Gonzaga News Service

SPOKANE, Wash. — Gonzaga University is among the 326 “best and most interesting” U.S., Canadian, British and Irish colleges and universities featured in the “Fiske Guide to Colleges 2022,” a respected independent college guide for 38 years. This marks the seventh consecutive year Gonzaga has been included in the publication.

Compiled by Edward Fiske, the former education editor for The New York Times, the publication offers what it calls an “insider’s look” at what it’s like to be a student at the top schools in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland.

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The guide aims to portray the distinctive identity of its listed schools based on a broad range of subjects, including academic, social, and quality-of-life ratings. The publication includes detailed information on each listed school’s campus setting, academics, student body, financial aid, housing, food, social life, and extracurricular activities.

The recently released 2022 edition describes Gonzaga as a “liberal arts university committed to the Jesuit ideal of educating the whole person: mind, body, and spirit.” In keeping with that commitment, the guide describes Gonzaga’s extensive core curriculum for undergraduates that starts with a first-year seminar and ends with a core integration seminar.

“Centered around the question of how students may ‘educate themselves to become women and men for a more just and humane global community,’ the core includes courses in English composition, communication and speech, and critical reasoning, with doses of philosophy and religious studies, literature, scientific inquiry, and mathematics,” the guide notes. “Writing, social justice, and global studies are emphasized throughout the core.”

Gonzaga gets high marks for its LEED-Gold certified Hemmingson Center, which offers ample space for the student body association, student clubs and organizations, and the main dining hall, and its transformative 52,000-square-foot, two-story Woldson Performing Arts Center.

“Gonzaga students are excited, passionate, service-driven, and open-minded,” notes a history major.

The guide also emphasizes Gonzaga’s school spirit, small class sizes, committed and accessible faculty, a culture that emphasizes social justice and community service, and its remarkable sense of community.

“Basketball may inspire the most vocal outpourings of school spirit, but students say that the religious and humanistic values to which the university has long been committed run deep. ‘Community is a word tossed around quite frequently at all college campuses,’ says a psychology major, ‘but at GU, community is almost a belief.’”

Gonzaga offers more than 50 service-learning courses, and half of all undergraduates take part in some form of community service, the guide notes, adding Gonzaga also offers more than five dozen international programs in which 56 percent of students participate.

“Being involved in the community is a specific Jesuit trait that we all try to live out,” adds another student.

 
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