Life in a Liberal Arts College

Abstract

I have been a humanities faculty member at Hope College, a liberal arts institution in Holland, Michigan, for more than 14 years; I also attended Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia as an undergraduate. (For graduate school, I attended two private research universities—the University of Miami and Harvard—and I taught briefly at a community college: Miami-Dade.) I have been a “Careers” columnist at The Chronicle of Higher Education for more than 16 years; more recently, I have been serving as the founding director of an undergraduate program in the “Digital Liberal Arts” and an initiative that seeks to foster collaboration among the 13 liberal arts colleges of the Great Lakes Colleges Association; both are funded generously by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.