Five four‐year colleges: Pomona College

MAR 01, 1968

Strong faculty involvement in research has led to undergraduate interest and participation that provides some of the excitement of graduate school often missing at a liberal‐arts college.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3034818

Charles A. Fowler

THERE IS A DECLINE in the productivity of small‐college physics departments as a group. The necessary, if not sufficient, ingredients for a successful undergraduate‐physics program are interested physicist‐teachers and capable students, and the desire of many in each of these groups to “be where the science action is” has resulted in their gravitating toward the large universities. The physics department at Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) offers no studies beyond the baccalaureate and would seem to typify that kind of department marked for oblivion by George Pake and others.

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Charles A. Fowler, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.