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- ↑ "Reach out. Connect. Collaborate. - Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges". Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
- ↑ Victor E. Ferrall, Jr., Liberal Arts at the Brink (Harvard University Press, 2011), ISBN 978-0674049727, p. 86. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ↑ "Reach out. Connect. Collaborate. - Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges". Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges. Retrieved 2016-12-26.