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Sarasota News Leader September 13, 2013 Page 82 NEW COLLEGE RANKED NO. 5 AMONG PUBLIC LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES U.S. News & World Report has ranked New • Thirty-five percent of New College freshCollege of Florida the nation's No. 5 public men were in the top 10 percent of their high liberal arts college in the magazine's 2014 school classes. "Best Colleges" edition, New College has an• Seventy-three percent of New College classnounced. es have fewer than 20 students. The rankings were released Sept. 10 on the • Only 1 percent of New College classes have magazine's website. 50 or more students. New College ranked 89th among all national liberal arts colleges, public and private, the U.S. News & World Report also ranked New ninth consecutive year the school has placed College No. 21 for colleges whose students in the top 100, a news release notes. "It is also graduate with the least amount of debt, avthe ninth consecutive year that New College eraging $18,276. The magazine reported that has placed in the top six public liberal arts only 39 percent of the New College graduates had any debt at all at graduation, the fifth-lowcolleges," the release adds. est percentage among the listed colleges, the New College is the only Florida liberal arts release points out. college to be listed among the magazine's top In January, U.S. News & World Report re100. leased supplemental data showing that New U.S. News & World Report cited several staCollege ranks sixth in the country for the pertistics behind New College's strong showing: centage of students who go on to graduate • One-quarter of students have SAT scores of school within a year of graduation, the release 1410 or higher. continues. RIVER ROAD/US. 41 INTERSECTION TO CLOSE TEMPORARILY The intersection of River Road and U.S. 41 will be closed from 10 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, through Monday, Sept. 16, for the installation of a signal truss over the roadway, Sarasota County has announced. The timing of the installation is planned to minimize traffic delays for motorists, a news release says. The county will have message boards located at nearby major intersections and on Interstate 75 to remind motorists of the pending temporary closure. Sarasota County Sheriff's deputies will be posted at the intersection's entrances to control traffic the release notes. Motorists are encouraged to seek alternate routes during this time frame. For more information, visit www.scgov.net or contact the Sarasota County Call Center at 861-5000 and ask about the River Road and U.S. 41 Intersection Improvements Project. FOR ADVERTISING INFO Sales@SarasotaNewsLeader.com • (941) 227-1080