But faculty
members at liberal arts colleges face a constant challenge to find the elusive sweet spot that combines innovative and successful teaching with modest but productive research.
Perhaps one day postdocs will be common
enough at liberal arts colleges that they won't be greeted with «blank looks» when they walk into human resources or the computer support center.
WHAT: After he's hired to teach
at a liberal arts college in Rhode Island, Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) becomes romantically involved with two women: doe - eyed philosophy student Jill (Emma Stone) and unhappily married professor Rita (Parker Posey).
Barbara Beltz, a biology professor at Wellesley College who has hosted three postdocs on her research grants over the past several years, says that at least one Wellesley science department (neuroscience) has funding and a plan in the works to hire postdocs who have an interest in
teaching at a liberal arts college.
Someone might say they're going through a bitter stage explained by the dearth of eligible
males at the liberal arts college, and they'll change when the guys finally grow up.
President Trump drew the line clearly in his citation of three Polish figures whom you might find in a Western Civ
syllabus at a liberal arts college: Copernicus, Chopin, John Paul.
But security apparently works differently at James Dolan concerts than
at liberal arts college Division III sports games, and two bouncers swiftly arrived to escort the men out of the restaurant.
In fact,
students at liberal arts colleges realized virtually the same educational gains, no matter their major, according to the UI report released earlier this month.
Even as a qualification for faculty
jobs at some liberal arts colleges, a postdoc might be a better choice than a VAP, because many such colleges expect you to establish a productive research program.
As discussed in Leslie Pray's article (Postdoc Life at Liberal Arts Colleges, Part 1 and Part 2), postdocs
at liberal arts colleges often have the opportunity to teach and mentor undergraduate students.
Although she completed her first degree in Business
Administration at the liberal arts college, St. Mary's College of California, she attributes her current path in hospitality to the two years studying in Barcelona obtaining her degree in PR and Communications.
Hopefully, you won't have too many hurdles and will be provided everything you need to focus on what you're there to do, which for the growing number of teaching / pedagogical
postdocs at liberal arts colleges is teaching.
Q & A:
Teaching At a Liberal Arts College - a professor of biology at a small liberal arts college answers a postdoc's questions about teaching experience and making the transition to a college teaching career.
For Girdler, as for many, the major downside of being
at a liberal arts college was that «no one knew quite what to do with me.»