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Article: Reassessing research: liberal arts colleges and the social sciences.
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- Daedalus
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Observers of the liberal arts colleges have for some time noted their leading role in producing the nation's Ph.D.'s. This pattern occurs in the social sciences as well as the humanities and natural sciences. The question of why these institutions should have such remarkable success has not received a great deal of scholarly attention, though the figures naturally provoke speculation about the kind of instruction that occurs in the best of these colleges and the experience of their undergraduates.(1) The 1998 Higher Education Data Service (HEDS) figures report on the baccalaureate origins of doctorate recipients in the social sciences.(2) With data weighted for size of ...