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.
Community colleges have also surged in popularity among those who already hold four-year degrees and are looking for practical skills to complement their liberal arts education and give them an advantage in the job market.
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However, if the U.S. keeps at it with low wages, an education system that focuses too heavily on liberal arts, and punitive higher education costs we should be on par with Brazil in a couple of generations.
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.
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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This may provide some comfort to parents who have recently sent in deposits and are worrying about the futility of a liberal arts education versus more practical degrees in engineering, computer science or say, nursing.
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Generic liberal arts education is scarcely affordable within four years, and no longer prepares graduates for a competitive and technological marketplace.
Do we want people returning who have learned only to hone the tricks of the trade, or do we want people coming back to our neighborhoods who have had a chance to learn the kind of analytical skills and be exposed to the ethical values that a liberal arts education is able to impart?
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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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In another salary breakdown, it singles out communications and education degrees, which could both be construed as liberal arts degrees.
For example, the New College of the Humanities will offer a liberal arts education of the kind which will be familiar to American readers and is so lacking in Europe, where most generally students must pick a topic of study (often vocational) upon their leaving the secondary school system.
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How intrinsically different is that from education in the West where girls are often funneled into the liberal arts and boys are encouraged to progress in math and science?
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