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A Research Career at a Liberal-Arts College

For junior faculty members, the best place to focus on research may not be at a research university

Like most graduate students finishing their Ph.D.'s and facing an unpredictable job market, I applied to every position for which I was even remotely qualified — some of them at places I had never...

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