He was taking Apple in the direction of the liberal arts, from where he had just come.
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It is precisely the liberal arts that make students globally knowledgeable, which is useful in any area of work.
If anything, I think we should make the liberal arts education more rigorous.
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Mark Taylor, a sociologist at Williams College in Massachusetts, is leading an effort to offer courses in the liberal arts.
What actually is the point these days of corralling students into universities so that they can be taught the liberal arts?
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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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"A writer, a critic, a professor, a campus legend and a national figure, the very embodiment of the liberal arts, " the Times obituary said.
It wasn't until university, where he studied the liberal arts in order to escape accounting, he says, that he learnt which were the important books.
When her husband was being courted by the department in Houston, he had been taken out to dinner with the other endowed chairs in the liberal arts.
When we were a primarily agrarian nation, schools focused on the liberal arts and operated on a schedule that coincided with the cycle of planting and harvest.
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As universities across the country continue to embrace the liberal arts, at least in conjunction with technical studies, many corporations have opened their doors to graduates with unconventional majors.
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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?
Ninety miles northwest of Detroit, Michigan State started as the nation's pioneer land-grant university, charged with using public land to teach practical subjects to augment the liberal arts tradition.
While this might be true today, it is the liberal arts studies that prepare students with the problem solving and critical thinking skills that can be applied throughout their lifetime.
Some believe differentiated tuition could kill the liberal arts.
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Aside from where the media went to school, we see a difference in what the media studied in school: journalism was the most-represented major at News Foo, but the liberal arts, collectively, predominated.
In general, all of the liberal arts colleges have done exactly what was expected to happen when the federal government intervenes and interferes with the free market (in this case the market of higher level education).
Even though my university background was in the liberal arts, I latched onto technology pretty quickly while at PBS. The spark was a show I produced about, of all people, Timothy Leary, who was adamant about how computers and high tech had the potential to reorganize society.
David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has taught at Stanford for more than forty years, credits the university with helping needy students and spawning talent in engineering and business, but he worries that many students uncritically incorporate the excesses of Silicon Valley, and that there are not nearly enough students devoted to the liberal arts and to the idea of pure learning.
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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Since 1970, the more higher education has expanded, the more the liberal-arts sector has shrunk in proportion to the whole.
The private liberal arts college has already awarded nearly 300 retroactive degrees, including one given posthumously to the mother of a deceased former student.
Mr. Gingrich left the small liberal arts college in 1977 after seven years and after he was denied tenure.
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It raised the status of the professions, by making them harder to enter, and it saved the liberal-arts college from withering away.
Adjacent to it is Beijing University, the premier liberal arts university.
If you can earn a certificate for completing an artificial intelligence class taught by a Stanford professor, gee, where does that leave the math professor at the underfunded liberal arts college?
My daughter and I realize that she may not be Harvard material, but some of the high achievers like her may find some of the elite liberal arts colleges, which also happen to have rather cut-throat low admit rates, can be a great fit.
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