• Agnes Scott was named one of the seven top women’s colleges in the country by About.com:College Admissions. It is the only college in the south on the list.

• The 2008 edition of The Princeton Review’s 368 Best Colleges, based on surveys of 120,000 students, gave Agnes Scott five Top 20 honors including Town-Gown Relations are Great, Best Quality of Life and Best Classroom Experience.

• ASC ranks #2 nationally in the percentage of graduates who earned Ph.D.s in economics from 1997 to 2003 according to a recent study published in the Journal of Economic Education.

• Agnes Scott is the only liberal arts, undergraduate college to have a partnership agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

• Nearly 50 percent of Agnes Scott students study abroad. The national average is 9 percent.

• The College’s new Web site received a Merit Award from the Admissions Marketing Report.

• The virtual tour on the Web site will be featured in CASE Currents magazine after college students in a focus group selected it as their #1 choice. The virtual tour was also nominated for a Webby award; of 8,000 submissions, only 1,500 sites received a nomination.

• Agnes Scott was the first higher education iTunesU site in Georgia to be listed in the online iTunes Store.

• Agnes Scott received two Top Five spots in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2008 Best Colleges to Work For, based on an employee survey.

Kudos also go to various departments at the College

• Development for a record-breaking year for the annual fund: $2,732,423 raised, with 4,916 donors and 47 percent alumnae participation!

• Human Resources for being named a TIAA-CREF exemplary school for pioneering efforts to automate the submission of retirement contributions

• Business and Finance for building a new budget reporting tool, which will give all budget managers real-time data for tracking expenditures

• Living Wage Campaign for launching a successful ESOL program for college staff.

• Education department, in partnership with the International Community School, received a $200,000 grant for a literacy curriculum.

• Academic Advising piloted a Promise Scholars program to a $200,000 grant from the Franklin Foundation

• Sustainability Initiative, which has engaged over 70 staff, faculty, students, trustees, and alumnae and has received:

• A Go Green Initiative award for cartridge recycling
• An $80,000 green design planning grant for Campbell Hall from the Kresge Foundation
• A Grants to Green award from the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta

• Facilities working with our Sustainability initiative and a student research assistant collected data to calculate Agnes Scott’s first greenhouse gas emissions inventory, the results of which will be announced in mid-September.