Sentences with phrase «small liberal arts»

Tacoma, Washington About Blog Ruminations on the teaching of and research in microbiology at a small liberal arts undergraduate institution.

Whether you're going to private college or a public college, whether it's a small liberal arts school or a massive state behemoth, resumes for college are an absolute must.

Penny is currently the Associate Director in the Career Services office at a small liberal arts college.

This small liberal arts college is roughly half the size of MSD.

Vancouver lawyer Thomas Isaac remembers a classroom of empty chairs when he took an aboriginal law course in the early 1980s at St. Thomas University, a small liberal arts school in New Brunswick.

From big schools like the University of Michigan to small liberal arts colleges like Amherst, the idea of divestment is spreading like wildfire.

Deep Climate: I'm not a climate scientist but a historian of Latin America, teaching at a small liberal arts college in South - Central PA, USA, where climate deniers are thick on the ground.

I graduated from a small liberal arts college, got a desk job, and hated every minute of it.

Those interests brought me to apply to 12 schools come senior year — mostly small liberal arts colleges that were largely unaffordable for me without the help of substantial merit scholarships.

Little did anyone know at the time, but this small liberal arts college was to become an iconic experiment that influenced and shaped cultural life in this country well into the next century.

I went to a small liberal arts college in Putney, Vermont, where I started as a math major.

OVER THE COURSE OF HIS CAREER, the artist spoke sparingly about his teaching at the small liberal arts college near his home in New London, Conn..

I went to undergrad at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA (a very small liberal arts school) and graduated with a BScience (major in biology, minor in studio art) in 2009.

Shearn graduated magna cum laude from Southwestern University, a small liberal arts college in Georgetown, Texas, with a BA in business, with an emphasis in accounting and finance.

I went to small liberal arts school and we didn't have an investing club, but I would have loved to join one.

Nic: I am a junior at The Master's College in Santa Clarita, California, a small liberal arts school.

Set at a small liberal arts college near Lake Michigan, it explores the lives of several characters, in particular a newly recruited baseball shortstop.

The story takes place at a small liberal arts college near Lake Michigan, where Henry Skrimshander, a boy from a modest background, has been recruited to play shortstop for a flailing team.

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.

The University of the Ozarks is a small liberal arts university that allows students the opportunity to receive a world class education while being nurtured by both staff and the student body.

She attended a small liberal arts college in Michigan.

After 12 years in the classroom and a year as a 2008 Washington Fellow, Eckert joined the faculty of his alma mater, Wheaton College, a small liberal arts college 25 miles west of Chicago.

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

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.

Martha Gold works in educational technology, instructional design and instructor support at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York.

Ted (Stanley Tucci) is a once - acclaimed author who teaches writing at a small liberal arts college.

When I was in my 20s I attended a small liberal arts college that had a reputation for being a marriage mill.

Biology held an allure for him through high school, and Tatar, drawn by its strong program in that subject, went on to Earlham College, a small liberal arts school in Indiana.

She took a job at Houghton College, a small liberal arts college in western New York.

He spun a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering into a 4 - year stint as a physics professor at a small liberal arts college, where he was hired to teach courses for nonmajors.

Establishing an undergraduate research program at a small liberal arts institution has its advantages and disadvantages.

So why would anyone want to spend this precious, career - building time at a small liberal arts college where, as Binney Girdler, a postdoc at Middlebury College in Vermont, says, «life revolves around the undergrads?»

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.

In fact, high - quality research is being done at small liberal arts colleges, and the importance of undergraduate research experiences in preparing future scientists is widely recognized.

In 1990 she immigrated to the United States, where a small liberal arts college in the Northeast agreed to accept her as a junior.

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.

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

Faced with declining enrollment and rising costs, some small liberal arts colleges have added professional and vocational majors, a decision University of Iowa researchers say has strengthened rather than undermined the mission of the schools.

After my first year as a faculty member in the chemistry department of a small liberal arts college, I felt more certain than ever that my strong desire to remain childless was even more of an advantage than I had previously realized.

Mark Goldman, a computational neuroscientist, earned an R01 grant while at Wellesley College, a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts.

Brat teaches at Randolph - Macon College, a small liberal arts school north of Richmond.

Western State College of Colorado, a small liberal arts school in Gunnison, gave Thompson an athletic scholarship, and in 1982, as a junior, he led the Mountaineers to a national collegiate cross-country championship.

Like a friend of mine, who teaches at a small liberal arts college and once referred to someone «going over to the dark side.»

They do have a fair number of small liberal arts colleges.

When I was in college I went to a small liberal arts school with a diverse student body faith wise.

Andrea: I received my BA in Psychology from the University of Puget Sound, a small liberal arts school in Tacoma, WA.

About 30 colleges and universities may pay a 1.4 percent tax on their endowment investment returns, including Harvard, Yale and small liberal arts colleges such as Amherst and Williams.

And we should appreciate those smaller liberal arts institutions, often Catholic, that continue, no doubt imperfectly, the tradition that began with Socrates.

(As far as Im concerned, the Ramen noodle people should offer scholarships at every major university, and even at some of the smaller liberal arts colleges.)

Using a student - centered approach with 15 individual performance indicators, WSJ / THE compared more than 1,000 colleges, from large research universities to smaller liberal arts programs.