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Shelby Owens
  • Clarksville, MD

McDaniel College welcomes freshman Shelby Owens of Clarksville

2011 Oct 11

Shelby Owens of Clarksville is a freshman at McDaniel College. The 440-strong Class of 2015 represents an impressive array of diversity, scholarship and leadership:

- Three-fourths performed community service and half held leadership roles during their high school years.

- 40 percent are the first in their families to attend college.

- 38 percent come from out-of-state.

- The Class of 2015 represents 25 states stretching from Washington state to California to Florida to Vermont.

- They hail from the U.S. and six other countries: Bahamas, China, Ecuador, Germany, Korea and Vietnam.

In McDaniel tradition, an army of upper-classmen volunteers pitched in to help the Class of 2015 get settled on Move In Day. This year's freshmen also were treated to an extra set of helping hands: President Roger Casey carried dozens of boxes jammed with the comforts of home, and more than the occasional flat-screen TV.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among 40 Colleges that Change Lives and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 60 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,700 undergraduates and 1,500 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, the Amtrak station and Baltimore-Washington international airport.