The private liberal arts college has already awarded nearly 300 retroactive degrees, including one given posthumously to the mother of a deceased former student.
This post was written by Stephanie Browner, Dean of Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, the newest and fastest-growing urban liberal arts college in New York.
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Mr. Gingrich left the small liberal arts college in 1977 after seven years and after he was denied tenure.
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It raised the status of the professions, by making them harder to enter, and it saved the liberal-arts college from withering away.
If you can earn a certificate for completing an artificial intelligence class taught by a Stanford professor, gee, where does that leave the math professor at the underfunded liberal arts college?
In 1975 the university added a liberal arts college later renamed after the education philanthropist Eugene Lang.
Mr. Schneider says students should compare net college costs after projected aid. (They can approximate net costs using the government's College Navigator tool) The riskiest investment is a high-cost liberal-arts college that lacks a strong brand name and doesn't offer much aid, says Mr. Schneider.
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Kenneth Couch, an economics professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UConn, studies the economic effects of unexpected lifecycle events, and he recently investigated the economic costs of divorce on women.
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In fact for certain prominent liberal arts colleges on the list like Vassar College, Pomona College and Amherst College, private gifts from grateful graduates account for nearly all of their income outside of tuition, fees and investment returns.
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The minister said he had no plans for such expansion but that liberal arts students did act as a subsidy for the college finances.
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Just this week, Yale University said it would open a liberal arts college in Singapore, at the expense of the island-state.
At Eugene Lang College at The New School for Liberal Arts, we have found another way to provide a rich, international experience that borrows from the community engagement model used for alternative spring breaks.
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So he joined the board of Simon's Rock College, a liberal arts school in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
So he lit out for the Berkshires and joined the board of Simon's Rock College, a liberal arts school in Great Barrington, Mass.
Comprising the bulk of the top 10 list are small liberal arts schools like Sarah Lawrence College in New York, Kenyon College in Ohio and Bennington College in Vermont--all high on prestige and low on student-teacher ratios.
For example, the New College of the Humanities will offer a liberal arts education of the kind which will be familiar to American readers and is so lacking in Europe, where most generally students must pick a topic of study (often vocational) upon their leaving the secondary school system.
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She was leading Roberts Wesleyan, a tiny liberal arts college in upstate New York, to the NAIA championship basketball game by averaging 24.3 points and 6.7 rebounds.
Instruction would be for courses in the College of Business, Education, Health Professions, Liberal Arts or Sciences.
First some background on the slightly less-than-illustrious history of this small, liberal arts college in Schenectady, N.
For the third consecutive year, Sarah Lawrence College, a small liberal arts school in Yonkers, N.
So they went to college and received liberal arts degrees, general business degrees and the like.
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"Certainly we come in contact with bacteria all the time, " Renee Godard, lead author of the study and professor of biology and environmental studies at Hollins University, a private liberal arts college in Roanoke, Virginia.
Mark Taylor, a sociologist at Williams College in Massachusetts, is leading an effort to offer courses in the liberal arts.
Shortly before Obama won the Presidency, Ginni Thomas took a position in Washington, with Hillsdale College, a small, liberal-arts institution in rural Michigan.
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