High school students visit So Cal colleges with a Disney Seminar too!

A large group of high schoolers and their chaperones covered several colleges in their tour of Southern California universities. At each campus, students engaged with specialists in a variety of fields. Their trip included a meeting on UCSD’s research pier with an oceanographer to learn about current research projects of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a private tour of the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism, learning about wellness programs and career services with Directors at UC Irvine, and visiting the School of Television, Film, and Radio at UCLA. A highlight of their trip, and a break from college tours, was an afternoon at Disneyland where they had a private seminar at the Disney Imagination Campus focused on Science and Technology taught by a Disney Imagineer.

UCSD Research Pier: Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Up the Oregon Coast

The beautiful state of Oregon hosts large public universities and fabulous small liberal arts colleges. Take a look at our photos! We enjoyed our visits to Lewis & Clark, Reed College, University of Portland, Linfield College, and University of Oregon! Campanile College Tours can design your custom visit to Oregon colleges!

MUSIC and MAGIC in Rochester, NY

We spent several days in Rochester, NY in October, visiting several colleges in the Rochester area. We were really excited to learn about the MAGIC Spell Studios at the Rochester Institute of Technology - a fully functional film sound stage and production studies. We had the opportunity to hear the fabulous musicians at the Eastman School of Music, part of the University of Rochester., rehearse in one of their historic concert halls. We also stopped at St. John Fisher College and Nazareth College, two small liberal arts campuses in the area. The leaves were turning and our hotel in quaint Pittsford, NY, along the Erie Canal, were the perfect combination for our college tour! Photos by Elizabeth Stone and Matt Donato

Innovative tours at Stanford University

I'm Rachel B and I was able to enjoy a day touring Stanford thanks to Campanile College Tours. Dr. Stone helped me get a great sense of the school by setting up a day for me to experience the various things Stanford has to offer. 

Hi - I'm Rachel and  I had a great day visiting Stanford on a tour created by Campanile College Tours.  My day started off with a general campus tour. I had the chance to see various departments on campus and walk past the Hoover Tower, which houses Stanford's enormous library.  The tour took us through the Engineering Quad, where the state of the art engineering program is located, and also walked past the Main Quad, where I was able to see the grandeur of the Memorial Church, an iconic piece right in the middle of campus. 

After my general tour, I was able to attend a tour of the d.school at Stanford, which is only offered once a month. The d.school is an innovative center at the university that offers classes about design-thinking. I saw the workspaces that had tools available for students to prototype new inventions and also saw a multi-purpose classroom that could be tailored to any one class's needs. Seeing this building was great and I enjoyed learning about the methods the professors use to teach their students about innovation.

At the end of my day, Dr. Stone organized an on-campus lunch with an alumna at the Arbuckle Dining Pavilion, a dining hall located in Stanford's graduate school of business. The dining hall had a variety of cuisines at an affordable price, and the experience helped me become acclimated to a college environment. Having lunch with an alumna was great, and afterward she took me to the Career Center and through Stanford's Hillel. It was nice to hear about Stanford from a former student and to learn about different aspects of college life.

The tour that the staff at Campanile College Tours organized for me was great and helped me get a sense of college life. Hopefully I can tour more schools in the future!