Warwick resident studies abroad

Warwick - Sarah Fisher, daughter of Steven and Barbara Fisher of Warwick, is spending the fall semester studying abroad in Bath, England, through a program run by Saint Michael’s College. Fisher is a student at Advanced Studies in England program. She is a junior English major at Saint Michael’s, a liberal arts, residential Catholic college located in the Burlington area of Vermont. Fisher graduated from Warwick Valley High School before coming to Saint Michael’s. Saint Michael’s College, www.smcvt.edu, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is included in Princeton Review’s The Best 366 Colleges: 2008 Edition. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college located in the Burlington area of Vermont, Saint Michael’s is amongst the select group of 270 institutions nationwide allowed to sponsor a chapter of the academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, on campus. Saint Michael’s has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, and some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. Saint Michael’s students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants. And Saint Michael’s professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last seven years. The College was named by Newsweek magazine a “Hidden Treasure,” one of 30 colleges recommended most frequently by guidance counselors for being “schools that deserve more national recognition.”