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Students Present at National Conference
Three Hampden-Sydney students recently traveled to the northern tip of the Midwest to present their research at the 27th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). The meeting, held at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, welcomed presenters from all disciplines and institutions across the nation.
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Student’s Original Score Wins Kennedy Center Award
Luke Martin ’14 has played guitar since he was 10, but writing a musical score for a theater production was not part of his curriculum vitae until last fall. Now he can add “award-winning composer” to his résumé.
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The Dirigible Plums
If a group of Claremont students runs past you, holding onto broomsticks and throwing balls at one another, don’t worry! They’re just members of the Dirigible Plums, the official Quidditich team of The Claremont Colleges.
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A Chronicle of Higher Education “Flipping Revolution”
Steven Neshyba, professor of chemistry, published a Chronicle of Higher Education essay this week, about his experiment with “flipping” his chemistry class to try to enhance student learning.
Continue Reading →Record Participation in Research Symposium
“This represents the heart of what we do here at Colby … and each year this gets bigger.” That’s how Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Lori Kletzer described the 14th annual Colby Undergraduate Research Symposium when she introduced the keynote session May 1.
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FCC Chief Sets New Standard for Passing the Buck on Indecency
President Harry Truman famously displayed a sign on his desk that read, “The buck stops here.” There surely is no such sign on the desk of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski.
Continue Reading →Five Students Selected for Sorensen Institute
Five Hampden-Sydney students were among the twenty-four Virginia college students recently selected by the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership for the College Leaders Program for 2013 which offers an advanced program on public service and leadership for college students.
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Bucknell archives reveal rare photograph of first Chinese American
No photographs of Wong Chin Foo — the man who, records indicate, was Bucknell University’s first Chinese and second international student — were thought to exist until this one was located last year in the University Archives by Curator of Special Collections/University Archives Isabella O’Neill.
Continue Reading →Quad Named to Honor Couple Who Have Donated $76 Million+ to DePauw
“It’s a rare day that any college or university marks off a part of its campus in honor of those who have changed an institution, and today is one of those rare days,” DePauw University President Brian W. Casey said this afternoon as he formally dedicated the Ubben Quadrangle.
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Paul Maruyama Honored with Japanese Imperial Decoration
Paul K. Maruyama, a lecturer in Japanese in the German, Russian and East Asian languages department at Colorado College and president of the Japan America Society of Southern Colorado, has been named a recipient of the Japanese imperial decoration “The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.”
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My Internship: Curating an Exhibit at the OU Museum of Art
“The advantages that Oglethorpe’s museum provides both students and faculty are endless,” says Chris Wesley ’13. “I know I received an opportunity that I can’t imagine having anywhere else.”
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.