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“Many believe that the larger proportion of students at liberal arts colleges who write senior theses and undertake senior research projects is one of the primary causes for the larger number of eventual doctorates at smaller institutions,” Siegfried said.
According to the student, many of Abdul-Basser’s other views are “not in line with liberal values, such as notions of human rights. He privileges the medieval discourse of the Islamic jurists, and is not willing to exercise independent thought and judgment beyond a...
While Harvard had the largest number of eventual doctorates, small liberal arts colleges such as Swarthmore produced the most economics Ph.D.s relative to their class size. Siegfried said that many ideas have been proposed as to why the smaller schools were yielding higher percentages.
Though Siegfried agreed that writing a senior thesis contributed to higher levels of future Ph.D. students, he cited that fact as the main reason for why liberal arts colleges led the rankings when it came to overall percentage of eventual Ph.D.s.
According to Argentine campaigner Ariel Bellino, a former Catholic: "The church counts all those who've been baptized as Catholic and lobbies for legislation based on that number, so we're trying to convey the importance of people expressing they no longer belong to the church." Campaigners say that's...