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What Matters in College After College:
New Findings Released, March 3, 2008
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The Women’s College Coalition commissioned Hardwick~Day to conduct a research survey assessing alumnae from the classes of 1970 through 1997, comparing the responses of women’s college alumnae with alumnae of public and private colleges and universities. The key messages drawn from the findings focus on the areas in which women’s college alumnae report outcomes that surpass the outcomes of alumnae of public and private institutions; they help make the case for the effectiveness of a women’s college education.
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HIGHER LEVELS OF ENGAGEMENT
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| Women attending women's colleges report higher levels of engagement than women attending co-educational institutions on the types of educational experiences identified in our article on college choice. |
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Completing a different kind of test is student Natasha Sivananjaiah on the PBS series "Design Squad" :
"I have always had a strong background in math and science and it wasn't until recently that I decided to get a liberal arts education," she said. "Even though I have made up my mind to go to law school, the analytical skills you learn from engineering will help you in any field."
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Dr. Ahern’s teaching philosophy is centered on the students’ needs: She reflects, “I am interested in developing students’ critical thinking and communication skills so they will be equipped for the future they choose to devise.”
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"I'm fascinated by how contemporary events become recorded as history, and by how what we teach as history is colored by the viewpoints of our historians," says Kate Meehan '00. Meehan, who is working toward her Ph.D. in history at the University of Illinois, notes that historians are not nearly as impartial as we often believe.
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New Evidence
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| Graduates of women’s colleges are significantly more likely than women who graduated from other liberal arts colleges or from public flagships to have graduate degrees, according to data released Monday, March 3, 2008. |
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