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The State of the Liberal Arts College
"It was earlier today said that smaller institutions are more conservative and less likely to change than large ones: that is true. It was also said that elite schools are less likely to respond to needed changes and that is also true. Having taught for a third of a century at Swarthmore, I perfectly represent both of those things. Moreover, I represent that estate of the realm least friendly to change, the faculty. Further, I am from a discipline, so called, Political Science, which both in its political sense and its scientific sense is part of the problem. And so my message is one of doom and gloom." - James Kurth
Posted by Michael Pomeranz on November 05, 2010 at November 5, 2010 01:35 PM
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