Sentences with phrase «small liberal arts colleges»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

(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.)

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.

She attended a small liberal arts college in Michigan.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

I just got back from giving a lecture at a small liberal - arts college.

But as an English major at a small Christian liberal arts college, I can't think of a more fitting analogy to convey how I often feel when I talk to my friends about books.

But as an English major at a small Christian liberal arts college, I can't think of...

Or Middlebury, Amherst, Williams, Smith, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Haverford, Pomona, Reed, or... well, suffice it to say we had a choice of dozens of small colleges that present a similar profile: formally committed to the liberal arts, highly selective in admissions, well - regarded for the quality of their academic programs, and quite openly enthusiastic about a handful of contentious concepts.

I discovered this lack of community when I taught in a fine small suburban liberal - arts college; my otherwise delightful, intelligent students were almost illiterate in group experience.

First, several small but notable Christian colleges (unmentioned by Epstein) still promote the liberal arts through their rigorous core curriculums: Thomas Aquinas College (which offers one degree: B.A. in the liberal arts), the University of Dallas, and Calvin College all deserve mentions.

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,....

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

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.

In 1988, while studying and doing R.O.T.C. at Providence College, a small Catholic liberal arts school, Murray did some advance work the Republican governor of Rhode Island Edward DiPrete.

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

Charles Greer, director of the neuroscience graduate program at Yale University, urged neuroscientists interested in academic work to widen their sights to include smaller universities and liberal arts colleges.

Even in a liberal arts environment, however, research is often highly valued, and the postdoc route might be the better choice, especially if you first need to establish a research agenda that's amenable to undergraduates and feasible in a small - college setting.

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.

On the other hand, students at historically black liberal arts colleges often work at research universities during the summer, Hammonds says, so she isn't sure how large an effect small colleges have.