<p>“The chair of the philosophy department at Princeton when I was a grad student there way back when had previously taught at Wellesley for many years; he was regarded as one of the most distinguished figures in the field. Currently on the Wellesley faculty is Karl Case, an economist who co-developed the widely used Case-Shiller real estate price index with Robert Schiller from Yale.”</p>
<p>Come on, we both know these are the exceptions. The VAST majority of extremely competent LAC profs are NOT big names in their fields and never make world-changing discoveries, yet they manage to provide world-class UNDERGRAD educations.</p>