<p>Liberal arts colleges that are ranked the best at making new junior faculty feel welcome include Bowdoin, Mount Holyoke, Kenyon, Trinity and Wesleyan.</p>
<p>[32</a> Colleges Are Named Most Friendly to Junior Faculty - Labor & Work-Life Issues - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/32-Colleges-Are-Named-Most/125395/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en]32”>http://chronicle.com/article/32-Colleges-Are-Named-Most/125395/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en)</p>
<p>I’m thinking career development has something to do with it:
<a href=“http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/08/06/nsf-grant-lets-shusterman-study-connections-between-childrens-acquisition-of-language-number-concepts/[/url]”>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/08/06/nsf-grant-lets-shusterman-study-connections-between-childrens-acquisition-of-language-number-concepts/</a>
<a href=“http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/04/21/barth-receives-nsf-grant-for-developmental-cognition-research/[/url]”>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/04/21/barth-receives-nsf-grant-for-developmental-cognition-research/</a>
<a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/sciences/sciencefacts.html[/url]”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/sciences/sciencefacts.html</a></p>
<p>Here’s a link to the original Harvard paper cited in the Chronicle article. Note that Wesleyan receives “exceptional” ratings in three benchmark areas: 1) Nature of Work (research) 2) Nature of Work (teaching) 3) Work and Home: <a href=“http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic853043.files/COACHE_ExemplarReport_20101115.pdf[/url]”>http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic853043.files/COACHE_ExemplarReport_20101115.pdf</a></p>
<p>Props to Froshdad and <em>Wesleying</em> for the cross-blog/board discussion pollination.</p>