US education: Liberal colleges ask for more
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Science at Liberal Arts Colleges : A Better Education ?
IT WAS THE SUMMER OF 1970. Carol and I had spent four years at Grinnell College, located in the somnolent farming community of Grinnell, Iowa. Now, newly married, we drove westward, where we would enter the graduate program in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. How would our liberal arts education serve us in the Ph.D. program of one of the world’s great research universities?...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/322203a0