Generating ideals and transforming lives: A contemporary case for the residential liberal arts college

Daedalus

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 173-194

  Hersh, Richard H ^a  

^a HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

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29. These trends are drawn from DYG SCAN, a trend-identification program developed by Daniel Yankelovich and used by his research firm DYG. Since 1986, SCAN has tracked attitudes on many values and issues directly relevant to the question of the status of liberal arts education. Used with permission of DYG, Inc.
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