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Tim Ubben ’58 to Receive Top CASE Award for Alumni Volunteer Involvement
Timothy H. Ubben, a 1958 graduate of DePauw University, is the 2012 recipient of the Ernest T. Stewart Award for Alumni Volunteer Involvement. Presented by ... Continue Reading →
The Liberal Arts and Leadership
Today’s economic environment, with its stubbornly high level of unemployment, is pressuring liberal arts institutions to justify the "value proposition" offered by our undergraduate programs. ... Continue Reading →
Jacob Dein ’12 Designs Website to Predict Impacts of Shale Drilling in Delaware River Basin
Jacob Dein ’12 is from Honesdale, Pa., where layers of gas-filled Marcellus shale lie untapped beneath the landscape. Just north of the Poconos, Honesdale awaits ... Continue Reading →
Centsless? Students Launch a Venture for Their Empty-Pocketed Peers
Centsless, a new business venture created by three University of Puget Sound students, has won a top entrepreneurial prize and is looking so promising, the ... Continue Reading →
Rollins College Announces Six Fulbright Scholars
Five Rollins College students and one alumna have been awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships. They join over 1,600 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad for ... Continue Reading →
Broadcast TV “Not That Essential” to Young People, Prof. Jeff McCall ’76 Tells LA Times
A story in this morning’s Los Angeles Times, headlined “TV networks desperately seeking young-adult viewers,” includes comments from Jeff McCall, professor of communication at DePauw ... Continue Reading →
Alexander Meis ’08 Wins National Public Policy Challenge from Penn’s Fels Institute
A team comprised of Alex Meis ’08, Miriam Altman, and Barrie Charney Golden won the inaugural National Invitational Public Policy Challenge April 22 at the ... Continue Reading →
Monon Bell Classic Listed Among ‘Indiana’s Top 100′
“The Indiana Economic Development Corporation’s ‘Indiana’s Top 100′ highlights facts and figures designed to make the state more enticing to business ventures including corporate tax ... Continue Reading →
Paul Johnson ’04 Will Conduct Research in Spain with Fulbright Award
Paul Michael Johnson, a 2004 graduate of DePauw University, has been been awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship that will send him to Spain for the ... Continue Reading →
Professor risks life to help teach Afghans to read
Just a few months ago, Lewis & Clark professor of education Zaher Wahab was asked to take on a nearly impossible assignment—come to Kabul immediately ... Continue Reading →
The Student’s Choice
Gender and women’s study professor Chris Guzaitis shocked everyone – including herself – when she entered the Motley Coffeehouse on April 27 and found a ... Continue Reading →
The Liberal Arts Advantage
Educating students who are passionate and complex. Fostering clarity of thought and expression, fair-mindedness, appreciation for the arts and cultural diversity, intellectual curiosity, and a considered set of personal values and commitments. Standing for the ideals of academic rigor, social justice and freedom. Graduating individuals who value lifelong learning, broad knowledge but also intellectual depth.
These are just a few distinctions the 130 residential, liberal arts colleges of the Annapolis Group make in describing ourselves. But what we all hold in common, and what distinguishes us from universities and even many colleges, is a dedication to the value of the liberal arts and a strong residential educational experience.
What Matters in College After College
A comparative alumni survey, conducted by the independent research firm of Hardwick Day and commissioned by the Annapolis Group, finds the undergraduate experience students encounter at small, residential liberal arts colleges is more effective in producing meaningful and lasting benefits than the education experienced at large, public universities and other institutions of higher education.
The study, titled "What Matters in College After College," indicates a residential, liberal arts education not only leads to a number of immediate positive outcomes, but that these outcomes are present in and important to liberal arts college alumni long after their college experience has ended.