merc81:
@Briarrose11 : These impressions from a new Hamilton faculty member generally coincide with the preferred environment you describe in your original post:
As a grad student I taught at a big research institution, . . . and there are very smart students there as well, but they weren’t the ideal I had in mind, which was the engaged, enthusiastic liberal arts student who’s in it for the ideas, for the love of knowledge …
If you read the interview, you will note mentions of Kenyon, Wellesley and Williams as well: Meet the New Faculty: Jason Cieply, Russian Studies - News - Hamilton College .
Wow, I’ve met this person through academic circles, and my daughter is a freshman at Kenyon (which indeed strikes her as very collaborative). Small world.