Divisional Reading Rooms in the Small Liberal Arts College

Life as a professor at a small liberal arts college

We present a look at what it is like to be a professor at a small college: one professor at Grinnell College, one at Oberlin College, and one at Whitman College.

Distinctively American : The Liberal Arts College 133

PATENTS ON THE TRADITIONAL MISSION of liberal arts education have expired. Generic versions of that mission are now regularly included in even the most specialized undergraduate curricula. In the marketplace, meanwhile, the undiluted liberal arts experience is battling the pressures of escalating costs, rising tuitions, and increasing demands for career training as a primary component of underg...

Proceedings of the 2008 College of Liberal Arts

IT for the Liberal Arts College: A Window of Opportunity

39 he quantity of printer’s ink sacrificed daily in the name of information technology and the new economy makes it difficult to separate fact from euphoria. The forceful reassertion of the business cycle and our current national trauma1 provide an appropriate opportunity for careful reflection about IT and about the future of IT in higher education. The measurable indicators — such as producti...

Proceedings of the 2008 College of Liberal Arts

unicipal solid waste (MSW) landfills impose externalities on surrounding neighborhoods. Consequently, numerous laws have been enacted in order to promote a competitive interstate trade in MSW that takes such externalities into account. In principle, the externalities can be regulated via command-and-control of landfill technology and disposal practices; imposition of disposal taxes; or via a sy...