Still, students pursuing vocational degrees are almost always required to take some liberal-arts courses.
Neither Theory 1 nor Theory 2 really explains how the educational system works for these non-liberal-arts students.
Between 2005 and 2007, data was collected from 24 four-year institutions, including state universities and liberal-arts colleges.
The 18-year-old, who has applied to several private, liberal-arts colleges, worries she will graduate unable to pay her bills.
Since 1970, the more higher education has expanded, the more the liberal-arts sector has shrunk in proportion to the whole.
Members of the humanities faculty were upset that Stanford proposed to create a second campus without including liberal-arts faculty or students.
It raised the status of the professions, by making them harder to enter, and it saved the liberal-arts college from withering away.
Sixty per cent of American college students are not liberal-arts majors, though.
Shortly before Obama won the Presidency, Ginni Thomas took a position in Washington, with Hillsdale College, a small, liberal-arts institution in rural Michigan.
L.A., and show greater improvement, than students majoring in non-liberal-arts fields such as business, education and social work, communications, engineering and computer science, and health.
Stewart argues that this whole conversation, about people, production, wealth, and virtue, is a conversation about ethics, and is better had within a liberal-arts curriculum.
For Yale, the venture provides a chance to extend the university's brand to fast-growing Asian markets and to help introduce the Western liberal-arts tradition to the region.
Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non-specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.
Along with more than 20 other U.S. and European business schools, those institutions met last month at George Washington for a conference to discuss ways to better integrate a liberal-arts education into the business curriculum.
One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.
Mr. Schneider says students should compare net college costs after projected aid. (They can approximate net costs using the government's College Navigator tool) The riskiest investment is a high-cost liberal-arts college that lacks a strong brand name and doesn't offer much aid, says Mr. Schneider.
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This post was written by Stephanie Browner, Dean of Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, the newest and fastest-growing urban liberal arts college in New York.
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How did we -- as a predominantly white university with a strong liberal arts curriculum -- become one of the top producers of minority scientists in the country?
Take for example, private liberal arts-oriented Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
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Employers cannot expect to recruit and retain the top-tier talent that will allow them to compete globally with rock-bottom wages and college grads cannot expect that a four-year liberal arts education will be sufficient (or even necessary) to grant them access to the highly-paid careers of the next decade and beyond.
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I'm not arguing for a return to classic liberal arts education--it's not as if sixth-graders are suddenly going to start reading Aristotle.
Those leafy little New England towns with four-year liberal arts colleges may be fine places in which to paint, write or retire, but it's unlikely they'll birth the next Google or Gilead Sciences.
And expectations differ across those scholastic landscapes: A professor at a teaching-heavy liberal arts university, for example, might have four or five times the teaching load, course planning, and grading of one at a large research-oriented institution but less in the way of sweating late nights, winter breaks, and most summers over hitting research grant deadlines.
In an ideal Republic, every American would get a broad-based, four-year, liberal arts education rooted in great books shared inquiry, as offered at schools like my graduate alma mater of St.
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An argument for athletic spending at Division 3 (and to some extent, Division 2) schools is that it is an important student recruiting device: at some liberal arts schools, 30-40 percent of students are on some intercollegiate team, and the figure is 10 percent or so at some Division 2 schools (as opposed to well under 5 percent at most FBS powerhouses).
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In consequence a kind of undermining of the collegial quality and the cross-disciplinary quality and the liberal arts project in public higher education.
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Centenary College of Louisiana is a four-year, coeducational, private liberal arts college located in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Fisk University is a four-year, coeducational, private liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Those of us with liberal arts degrees who had certain across-the-curriculum requirements were trained to be generalists.
The new partners cover a broad range of institutions, from Ivy League universities Columbia and Brown, which has lagged in offering free online courses, to Wesleyan, a small liberal arts college, to a top-ranked music school, Berklee College of Music, to state schools like University of Maryland at College Park, to foreign institutions like Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Melbourne.
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