Sentences with phrase «liberal arts college»

The interviews and salary negotiations that we describe took place at a small liberal arts college in the early 1980s.

Certainly, this is how students see things, no doubt especially students at small liberal arts colleges.

I went to a small, private liberal arts college where there was very little spirit toward school sports.

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.

I graduated from a fancy liberal arts college with a group of very smart people.

I suspect Christian liberal arts colleges and universities will be particularly prone to this.

However, the changing landscape of higher education has prompted a number of liberal arts colleges to adopt professional and vocational programs.

Students in the best liberal arts colleges are certainly not practicing the enjoyment of leisure.

Many liberal arts colleges pride themselves on sending their graduates on to the best universities.

An elite liberal arts college can be a very good alternative to the research - intensive track.

The colleges are also engaged in a larger effort to connect high performing charters to leading liberal arts colleges.

I graduated from a four - year liberal arts college in 2005.

I went to a highly ranked liberal arts college and graduated with a special major in sociology, anthropology and education as well as an elementary teaching certificate.

The contrarian in me doesn't like to admit it, but I just wanted what everyone else did — a little liberal arts college to call my own.

Liberal arts colleges often offer students small learning communities and opportunities to engage with faculty members.

He also works as an adjunct instructor of creative writing and communications at a local liberal arts college.

For example, do we need liberal art colleges?

And what about institutions, like liberal arts colleges, where there may only be a handful of postdocs?

Free standing liberal arts colleges exist and continue to offer much of the best higher education in the country.

I went to a top tier liberal arts college to obtain my undergraduate degree.

Liberal arts colleges generally don't provide the intellectual stimulation that research universities — with their steady stream of seminar speakers, graduate students, and postdocs — generally do.

In the nineteenth century they evolved into what we now know as liberal arts colleges.

Liberal arts colleges continue to thrive even though the proportion of students served by them is steadily declining.

As a student at one of our better Eastern liberal arts colleges told me, the only generally required course seems to?

A Catholic science professor I know was recently hired by a leading Catholic liberal arts college.

Many of them failed, but great numbers of them survived to produce something unique in education, the small religious liberal arts college.

Scientists at liberal arts colleges feel pulled in many directions.

Still, I recommend strongly that anyone who wants to be on the science faculty at a top liberal arts college pursue the best research postdoc possible.

We treat our students exactly as we would treat any conventional student on the campus of a superb liberal arts college.

There can be a common misconception that liberal arts colleges only provide majors in the arts or social sciences - however, they offer a range of majors, including math and the sciences.

From small, environmentally focused liberal arts colleges to the largest research universities, schools across the country are helping to move the country towards a more sustainable future.

A community college and a private liberal arts college keep the area educated and employ around 500.

Most of what were called universities in that period were liberal arts colleges with some graduate programs and professional schools added.

But after four years of operating a small startup incubator at a private liberal arts college I've learned a lot about creating business models that work and who might become a successful entrepreneur.

The cloud offers valuable benefits for small liberal arts colleges and large enterprise learning organizations alike.

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.

He gained both research and teaching experience, won strong letters in both areas, and went on to a tenure - track appointment at one of the nation's best liberal arts colleges.

I am a recent graduate from a top liberal arts college.

Westmont College is an interdenominational Christian liberal arts college located in Montecito, CA.

Saint Peter, MN About Blog Gustavus Adolphus College is a highly selective, private, coeducational, residential liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

Black Mountain College, experimental liberal arts college in Black Mountain, North Carolina, U.S. (about 20 miles [32 km] east of Asheville), founded in 1933 by scholars John Andrew Rice and Theodore Dreier.

This edgy drama addressing sexual harassment is about a cynical college professor at a small liberal arts college who takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student who admires his work.

Dr. Campbell, a former dean for NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, is the current president of Spelman College, a historically black liberal arts college for women in Atlanta, Georgia.

«The major finding for me is the impact for liberal arts colleges may be more on the institutional level not the major level,» Pascarella says.

By the early twentieth century many liberal arts colleges founded by the churches were distancing themselves from commitment to official church doctrines.

I will briefly explain the periodization that results and then discuss its relation to higher education, and in particular to the American liberal arts college.