Coe College is a selective, private, nationally recognized four - year coeducational
liberal arts institution providing superior educational experiences for students since 1851.
Like all librarians at our small,
liberal arts institution I am involved in reference, collection development, and shared management of the library.
Bard envisions
the liberal arts institution as the hub of a network, rather than a single, self - contained campus.
Upon graduating from
a liberal arts institution that, according to The Yale Report of 1828, theoretically should not provide «professional or practical education» to its students, many Yale graduates feel unprepared when entering the field of education (Howe 20).
The nominee for education secretary graduated from Calvin College,
a liberal arts institution in Grand Rapids that «prepares students to be Christ's agents in renewal in the world.»
We are a Marianist
liberal arts institution in San Antonio, the oldest and largest.
Establishing an undergraduate research program at a small
liberal arts institution has its advantages and disadvantages.
If you plan to return to academics, and you want to teach at a small
liberal arts institution, you should realize that you will spend a significant amount of time teaching and not conducting research.
«I think Wheaton takes very seriously its role as a Christian
liberal arts institution,» she said, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Rev Peterson has also been placed on paid sabbatical by bosses at North Park University, a Christian
liberal arts institution (pictured below).
Messiah College, an evangelical
liberal arts institution with roots in the Men - nonite tradition, is sponsoring a project titled «Reforming the Center: Beyond the Two - Party System of American Protestantism.»
And we should appreciate those smaller
liberal arts institutions, often Catholic, that continue, no doubt imperfectly, the tradition that began with Socrates.
Although
all liberal arts institutions value both teaching and research experience, they weigh their importance differently in hiring and in the tenure decision.
As Paul Tough points out in his recent New York Times article, «Rich kids graduate; poor and working class kids don't» the graduation rates for students from underrepresented communities are significantly higher at small
liberal arts institutions, where students are encouraged to question the dominant discourse and develop their own policy perspectives.
Not exact matches
Yet, most evangelical
institutions remain firmly committed to the older
liberal arts model of formation, fusing it with worldview analysis in order to cultivate an educated Christian laity who can then change society.
Seven hundred classmates and I recently graduated from a Catholic college — the oldest Catholic college in New England and the only
liberal arts, strictly undergraduate, and Jesuit
institution in the country.
This new
institution is obviously market - driven in the way that
liberal arts colleges have resisted.
A couple years ago I wrote about my visit to Augustine College, a nano -
institution with paltry resources that offers a one - year program of Christian
liberal arts for kids who want serious intellectual and spiritual formation before entering college.
Schools have continued to offer as an option a version of the
liberal arts education they traditionally provided; but such concerns and the faculties supporting them have played steadily decreasing roles among the financial forces that drive the
institutions.
What I have proposed thus far is a clarification of the difference between job training, research,
liberal arts education, and professional education, along with an indication of how they might be embodied in future
institutions.
I have been student or teacher at many types of
institutions: the small
liberal -
arts college, the «Research I» state university that completely dominates a small town,....
I've long had the sense that Msgr. Ellis's article was retrospectively misinterpreted as a relentless polemic against Catholic colleges and universities mired in the tar - pits of Neo-Scholasticism and intellectually anorexic as a result; on the contrary, it's possible to read Ellis as calling for Catholic
institutions of higher learning to play to their putative strengths — the
liberal arts, including most especially philosophy and theology — rather than aping the emerging American multiversity, of which the University of California at Berkeley was then considered the paradigm.
Elite schools, both
liberal arts colleges and research universities, do a better job overall of retaining undergraduates in the sciences: At these
institutions 54 % of women but only 39 percent of men drop out of science before attaining a degree.
Because I am a faculty member at a small
liberal arts college — specifically, Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts — I was surprised to get an invitation to give a presentation at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, an elite, prestigious research
institution where no formal classroom teaching occurs.
I was invited to talk alongside more senior
liberal arts faculty about life at a
liberal arts science department and how to get hired at an
institution like mine.
And what about
institutions, like
liberal arts colleges, where there may only be a handful of postdocs?
Using the Education Department statistics, Mr. Chronister and Mr. Baldwin found that private
liberal -
arts colleges employed the largest proportion of full - timers on contract — 28.6 per cent, while public comprehensive
institutions employed the smallest proportion — 14.8.
Halley et al. (1991)[8] showed that GRE performance correlates with whether the undergraduate
institution has a graduate program, implicitly penalizing students from many
liberal arts colleges.
Simon's Rock College of Bard, a small, well - regarded
liberal -
arts institution in western Massachusetts, has unveiled an unusual financial - aid program for students completing the sophomore year of high school.
Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An
institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in
liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»
Most crucially, we attend key professional meetings and host on - site meetings where we will offer specific recommendations about how lessons from these programs can be drawn on by (or transferred to) other individuals, programs, and
institutions that seek to offer appropriate quality
liberal arts education in the years ahead.
«This report highlights several
institutions — in this case, five
liberal arts colleges and one private university — who seem to be doing the tenure track right,» says Kiernan Mathews, director and principal investigator of COACHE.
Arriving from 35 different states and 10 foreign countries, they represented an array of higher education
institutions, from large research universities to small
liberal arts colleges.
Greenville University - previously Greenville College, is a public
liberal arts Free Methodist
institution located in Greenville, Illinois.
More than 50 % of college graduates attend more than one higher education
institution before receiving a bachelor's degree (Ewell, Schild, & Paulson, 2003), and approximately 60 % of teacher education occurs in general
liberal arts and sciences, and other academic departments outside of teacher education.
Polytechnic
institutions are career - focused undergraduate and graduate universities that combine applied learning with a
liberal arts education.
«Nazareth is an ideal higher education
institution where students can receive a solid
liberal arts education, essential preparation for both advanced education and career development.
People who obtained
liberal arts degrees from high - priced private
institutions and who acquired no skills that will enable them to get a decent job;
University: ndiana University is a major multi-campus public research
institution, grounded in the
liberal arts and sciences, and a world leader in professional, medical, and technological education.
The requirements in this area are satisfied by courses offered by The Cooper Union Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences or by transfer credit for
liberal arts courses taken at other
institutions.
For the project, the Tang will work with other
institutions of higher education, such as the New York Six
Liberal Arts Consortium and area community colleges, as well as area school districts and community groups that serve racially diverse populations in the region.
Kratsman regularly publishes photos in the long - running
liberal newspaper Ha'aretz, which took a stand for Kratsman early last year when a joint exhibition with Ai Weiwei was cancelled by the Tel Aviv Museum of
Art, accusing the
institution of censorship.
In that vein, the
Art Center sought to forge distinctive partnerships with other Chicago
institutions and leaders in the visual
arts, like The Joyce Foundation, The University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing
Liberal and Professional Studies, and the visiting professionals who provide guidance and feedback to artists in the program.
Building on its 157 - year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate
institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private
institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to
liberal arts education.
The
liberal arts college is a leading
institution in the United States, and ranked number one among historically black colleges.
Bennington College, private, coeducational
institution of higher learning in Bennington, Vt., U.S. Bennington is a
liberal arts college comprising disciplines of literature and languages, social sciences, visual
arts, music, dance, drama, and natural sciences and mathematics.
Founded in 1933 by the classics scholar John Andrew Rice and the engineer Theodore Dreier, it was a progressive
institution based in Black Mountain, a small North Carolina town that aimed to place
art making at the heart of a
liberal arts education.
Elite
liberal arts college Amherst voted against partnering with massive open online course (MOOC) non-profit edX this week, bringing attention to
institutions» concerns about how MOOCs could impact higher education.
We're targeting this campaign at every college and university in the United States, from flagship state research
institutions to
liberal arts colleges.
Liberal Arts and Sciences
institutions are fabulous fits for this type of set up whereas engineering and technical
institutions may see a traditional career fair setting as a better fit for recruiting.