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By Choice The Advantages of Small Colleges |
The Council of Independent Colleges A Special Report on the Role of Small Independent Colleges in America |
Focus on the
Undergraduate
High Quality Education
Liberal Arts Education
for a Lifetime
Emphasis on Values
Significant Opportunities
Advantageous Teaching
Environment
Leadership
Financially &
Administratively Efficient
College "Family"
Commitment
Small colleges provide a liberal arts education for a lifetime - one in step with today's world.
The curriculum at small colleges - historically and now - requires core liberal arts general education courses in combination with pre-professional programs which prepare people for life's work.
As the pace of change quickens, the life span of an education decreases. Only by obtaining an education that is generic will individuals be able to remain current. Thus, increasing technological complexity requires not more specialized education but rather more general education - because men and women, individually, must attain the capacity and flexibility to education themselves for the remainder of their lives. A liberal arts education is not subject to the whim of the moment. It is an education for all time.
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This Special Report is made possible by a generous grant from the Atlantic Richfield Foundation.
This Special Report was published by the Council of Independent Colleges in association with JB Associates Washington, Ltd., Washington D.C.
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