Each faculty member has an office, comfortably appointed and large enough for meetings with students. Faculty who engage in laboratory research have private labs, suitably equipped, according to the faculty member's style of teaching and research. In each building that contains faculty offices and classrooms, there is at least one common room for informal conversations among students and faculty. The college publishes a newspaper, a literary review, and perhaps other periodicals of general interest. These publications are attractively designed, accurately written and edited, and generally of high quality.
Students contribute most of the content.
An excellent liberal-arts college has a large library, wisely selected, with easy access to the stacks. An excellent liberal-arts college has a hospital at which students who contract minor illnesses or incur minor injuries are treated. Students who have contagious diseases can stay in rooms in the hospital until they are well. An excellent liberal-arts college has modern facilities for physical training and intramural sports, but no intercollegiate athletics programs . If they confer honorary degrees, the honorees are scholars or socially responsible public servants, not entertainers, athletes, business tycoons, or war criminals.