Fisk University is a four-year, coeducational, private liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Adjacent to it is Beijing University, the premier liberal arts university.
And expectations differ across those scholastic landscapes: A professor at a teaching-heavy liberal arts university, for example, might have four or five times the teaching load, course planning, and grading of one at a large research-oriented institution but less in the way of sweating late nights, winter breaks, and most summers over hitting research grant deadlines.
Dr. Katharine Brooks, director of Liberal Arts Career Services at The University of Texas at Austin and author of You Majored in What?
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Asking for a pay raise is a delicate conversation and something you should not do without careful planning, says Dr. Katharine Brooks, director of Liberal Arts Career Services at The University of Texas at Austin and author of You Majored in What?
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Well, for starters, they offer a great deal of efficiency, as many employers and candidates are in one location at the same time, says Dr. Katharine Brooks, director of Liberal Arts Career Services at The University of Texas at Austin and author of You Majored in What?
In 1975 the university added a liberal arts college later renamed after the education philanthropist Eugene Lang.
Now, if your super brilliant, earth-shattering kid prefers having daily opportunities for access to, attention by and interactions with professors, elite liberal arts schools and a unique elite university like Princeton are hard to beat.
How did we -- as a predominantly white university with a strong liberal arts curriculum -- become one of the top producers of minority scientists in the country?
"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.
Even though my university background was in the liberal arts, I latched onto technology pretty quickly while at PBS. The spark was a show I produced about, of all people, Timothy Leary, who was adamant about how computers and high tech had the potential to reorganize society.
Just this week, Yale University said it would open a liberal arts college in Singapore, at the expense of the island-state.
It wasn't until university, where he studied the liberal arts in order to escape accounting, he says, that he learnt which were the important books.
In the old days a state's flagship university, with its law and liberal arts schools and alumni networks, carried a higher prestige than the ag or tech school.
Owned by 28 dioceses of the Episcopal Church, University of the South ranks among the nation's top liberal arts colleges, having produced 25 Rhodes Scholars.
Ninety miles northwest of Detroit, Michigan State started as the nation's pioneer land-grant university, charged with using public land to teach practical subjects to augment the liberal arts tradition.
For Yale, the venture provides a chance to extend the university's brand to fast-growing Asian markets and to help introduce the Western liberal-arts tradition to the region.
The new partners cover a broad range of institutions, from Ivy League universities Columbia and Brown, which has lagged in offering free online courses, to Wesleyan, a small liberal arts college, to a top-ranked music school, Berklee College of Music, to state schools like University of Maryland at College Park, to foreign institutions like Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Melbourne.
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