Sentences with phrase «small liberal arts college»

Particularly at small liberal arts colleges, making a positive and lasting impression as a nice and engaging human being can pay dividends when application review time rolls around.

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

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

But other small liberal arts colleges are determined to remain true to their mission despite expanding their programs.

At every institution I have been at, including smaller liberal arts colleges, tuition, room and board would often make up 90 percent of the revenue.

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

He has started looking at other teaching options, particularly at small liberal arts colleges in New England.

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.

The Wall Street Journal reports that pegging the tax to college enrollment will cause small liberal arts colleges to be hit disproportionately because many have sizable endowments but limited enrollment.

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.

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

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.

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

NOTHING is more fitting in this goal than a salute to Bill Belichick, who will assuredly take a Swedish exchange student who played tight end for a small liberal arts college in the Catskills.

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

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.

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.

Traditionally, research Ph.D. s interested in a career in science education sought positions at private secondary schools or small liberal arts colleges.

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

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

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.

After 6 years of teaching and doing research at Bates College, a small liberal arts college in southern Maine, I have found that it is possible to do interesting research under conditions that many big - university scientists would consider unmanageable.

Indeed, as Nyhus puts it, doing a postdoc at a small liberal arts college «can really help your application bubble to the surface.»

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?»

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas, in a role that should have won him an Oscar this year) published a novel seven years before («The Arsonist's Daughter») that won him both the PEN Faulkner award and a tenured English professorship at a small liberal arts college.

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(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.)

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.

She attended a small liberal arts college in Michigan.

A small liberal arts college, Graceland is able to offer non-traditional students opportunities to earn more than 10 online degrees, averaging 800 students enrolled in distance education each year.

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.

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

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.

She completed her undergraduate degree in 2009 at Kalamazoo College, a small liberal arts college and her veterinary education in 2013 at Michigan State University.

The University of Pikeville, a small liberal arts college in Kentucky, has chosen to make gaming one of their official school sports.

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

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