Dean Jim White shares how the College's focus on research and the liberal arts supports Carolina’s mission to serve the state of North Carolina and beyond. The post Service to the state, in and out of the classroom appeared first on Carolina Arts & Sciences Magazine.| Carolina Arts & Sciences Magazine
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
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
“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
