Cecilia Conrad, Vice President of the MacArthur Fellows Program and former Dean of Faculty for Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», explores the educational backgrounds of more than 900 MacArthur “Genius” Fellows in an article for the . She concludes that private liberal arts and women’s colleges provide educational environments most conducive for creative minds to develop through practices such as lower faculty-student ratios, discussion vs. lecture-based pedagogy, the high value placed on teaching skills, and the residential college atmosphere.
