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[svenc]

I refuse to believe that some of these places (universities) actually exist.  Y'all are making them up.  Snow College??

I figure it might be rather hard to get to the University of the Faroe Islands.  (Fróðskaparsetur Føroya -- it looks so much more inviting that way...)

Given that the website is from 2007 and there are only 130 students or so attending, I wonder if the university is still functioning.

Which website do you mean?  Both the Snow College and the University of the Faroe Islands websites have news updates from the last few days.

[helpful]

Thanks. When I first went to the FI website it only had news from 2007, so maybe they know we were coming so updated it this week!

[losemygrip]

Correction regarding Whitman College:

There's a nice airport in the "Tri-Cities" of Richland, Pasco, Kennewick.  That's only 45 minutes, and you can get a flight to Salt Lake, which is a Delta hub.  It's served by other airlines as well.  And there is an airport right in town with prop flights to Seattle on Horizon. 

Some of the state universities in Pennsylvania are suprisingly isolated.  Most obvious is Mansfield University.  I'm not sure where the hell you would go to fly out--I think there's a commuter airport 40 miles south in Williamsport, but US may have pulled out of there.  Clarion University has a commuter airport about 40 minutes away (in two different directions), but they were without service for an extended period after the US Pittsburgh contraction.  (I think CO is serving them now into CLE.)  Some of the other ones are a distance away from airports like Harrisburg. 

I'll second the inaccessibility of SUNY Potsdam.  Tiny commuter airport is about 30 minutes or more away.

[tee_bee]

In PA, even Penn State is not too easy to get to, unless you like the puddle jumpers. I don't, but to each their own.

Re: SUNY Potsdam (and also Clarkson U.): my wife used to do some occasional work at St. Lawrence U, in Canton, just down the road. It was often easier (but not cheap) to fly to Ottawa, ON, and get a ride or rent a car. For her last trip, she just flew to ALB and rented a car--a four hour drive in the Adirondacks in good conditions. Still, a lovely part of the country. [Indeed, the Clarkson Inn in Potsdam is quite charming.]

[temporaryname]

Some of the state universities in Pennsylvania are suprisingly isolated.  Most obvious is Mansfield University.  I'm not sure where the hell you would go to fly out--I think there's a commuter airport 40 miles south in Williamsport, but US may have pulled out of there.  Clarion University has a commuter airport about 40 minutes away (in two different directions), but they were without service for an extended period after the US Pittsburgh contraction.  (I think CO is serving them now into CLE.)  Some of the other ones are a distance away from airports like Harrisburg. 

Elmira-Corning airport (in New York) is about a half-hour away from Mansfield, and there's competition there, with flights to Detroit, Philadelphia, and Orlando(!).

Among large universities, it's worth mentioning Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah--more than 30,000 students, but the nearest airport with scheduled service is (I think) Salt Lake International, one hour away, even assuming no traffic.