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Direct linkCarlson, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
The College of the Atlantic (COA)--330 students and 43 faculty members ensconced on Maine's remote Mount Desert Island--has resisted growth, seeing smallness as key to providing an unusual education that cuts across disciplines, rejects academic conventions, and takes a highly personalized approach to teaching and learning. The emphasis on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Ecology, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewedStimpert, J. L. – Change, 2004
Liberal arts colleges occupy a unique place in the landscape of higher education. Whether defined, as David Breneman has, as an exclusive group of about 200 schools that award a large percentage of their degrees in traditional liberal arts fields, or as a more inclusive group of baccalaureate institutions, liberal arts colleges focus on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study, Thinking Skills, College Faculty
