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NEW COLLEGE NAMED A BEST BUY IN FISKE GUIDEBOOK New College of Florida has won another significant accolade. Photo courtesy New College New College of Florida continued a year of prominent accolades with its selection as a Best Buy college — one of just 44 in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom — in the respected Fiske Guide to Colleges for 2015, the college has announced. New College has appeared on the Fiske list since 2003, a news release points out. Other noted institutions that made this year's Best Buy list are the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Indiana University and Trinity College of Dublin, the release adds. The Fiske Best Buy colleges must meet the guide's criteria for a top four- or five-star academic rating, and they must be in its mod- erate or low-price groupings, the release explains. The guide, founded by former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske, is in its 31st year. Fiske's review called New College a "fast-ris- ing star," the release says. The review, which draws on both data and interviews with stu- dents, said the college's academic program is "rigorous and challenging" and "proves to students that learning can be a self-di- rected, fun and productive experience," the release notes. Sarasota News Leader July 18, 2014 Page 74