Two liberal arts colleges share how they've won faculty and leadership buy-in on innovative academic offerings. The post Why liberal arts schools are now hopping on skills-based microcredentials appeared first on University Business.| University Business
This report offers a nuanced, student-centered perspective on the economic and educational value of a liberal education. Using the Liberal Arts and Sciences Educational Experience (LASEE) Framework and rich, longitudinal student-level data from public colleges and universities, we examined how exposure to core liberal arts features relates to student outcomes. The post Measuring the Economic Value of a Liberal Education appeared first on Ithaka S+R.| Publications - Ithaka S+R
The warnings family members give about starving English majors are working — students are fleeing from the humanities en masse. The post Misguided Careerism is Killing the Humanities appeared first on The Observer.| The Observer
By Sarah Daniels, Content Manager Soon-to-be graduate Alessandro Zuccaroli ’25, a biochemistry major and history minor, has a bright future ahead of him. Directly after graduation, he will work as a research specialist in an infectious disease laboratory at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in the Penn Institute for RNA […]| The Gettysburgian.
One way to achieve bachelor's degree attainment for community college transfer students at scale is through state- and region-level initiatives dedicated to supporting transfer from community colleges to independent colleges and universities. The Teagle Foundation and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations’ Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts initiative aimed to create such pathways. This playbook draws on the experiences of grantees building pathways in 14 states. The post Playbook for Tran...| Publications - Ithaka S+R
"The decline in liberal-arts disciplines is happening because, on many campuses, no one has taken ownership of explaining them." That's Scott Carlson and Ned Laff in The Chronicle of Higher Education on "The Hidden Utility of the Liberal Arts". The authors thoughtfully discuss some of the causes of this decline and its various aspects, and they| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
In our journey of liberal learning, we will, both students and teachers, find ourselves in the presence of the goodness of truth and the beauty of being. We will linger there in that presence, contemplating, knowing that this goodness of truth and this beauty of being is a reflection of the One who is Being itself. (address by George Harne)| The Imaginative Conservative
Megan Waardenburg on the moral failings of ancient heroes.| classicalu.com
“It’s the end of Computer Programming as We Know It” wrote Farad Manjoo in the NYTimes last June. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said earlier this year that programming is no longer important: “It is…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
Modernity consists of perversions of notions drawn from Christianity; to be a modern means to be deeply enmeshed in them.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens was founded in 1881 to provide American graduate students and scholars a base for their studies in the history and civilization of the Greek world…| [quem dixere chaos]
Loosely defined, the phrase “liberal arts” refers to courses in Western philosophy, theology, literature, art, and history, with science and foreign languages playing a real but secondary role. For…| BruceAshford.net
Are our lives meaningless? Absolutely not. Pope Francis wrote in Evangelii Gaudium that “formation in the via pulchritudinis (the way of beauty) ought to be part of our effort to pass on the Faith.” In the Regina Academies, we have an opportunity to surround our students with beauty, whether it be in nature, the liturgy, or in the classroom.| The Regina Academies
