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President’s Message
The Proof Is in the Portfolio
By Carol Geary Schneider
Let’s band together as a community and insist that it is high time to break free of the reductive focus on standardized testing of “general skills,” quantitative metrics for achievement, and the national obeisance before the false gods of comparable scores and faux rankings.
News and Information
FEATURED TOPIC
Liberal Education and Effective Practice: The Necessary Revolution in Undergraduate Education
By Richard M. Freeland
Campus-level efforts to connect liberal education with practice are designed to nurture engaged, effective, constructive professionals and citizens. And they implicitly question whether learning experiences that cultivate analytic skills in classroom settings constitute the most effective way to enact this traditional mission of liberal education.
College Outcomes for Work, Life, and Citizenship: Can We Really Do It All?
By Debra Humphreys
The Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative addresses the need to transform higher education so that it serves all students—and our society—more effectively. But are the necessary changes really within reach?
Strengthening the Foundations of Students’ Excellence, Integrity, and Social Contribution
By Anne Colby and William M. Sullivan
Colleges should aim to teach students how to use knowledge and criticism not only as ends in themselves but as means toward responsible engagement with the life of their times. This can be accomplished best by addressing key dimensions of personal and social responsibility.
Whose “Greater Expectations” Are They, Anyway? Exposing the Tensions within Educational Reform Rhetoric
By Rosemary J. Cleary and Eve Allegra Raimon
There is a perceived seamlessness in the student learning outcomes desired by business, civic, and educational leaders. But does the focus on these commonly endorsed outcomes undermine the unique and historical role the academy has played in providing a countercultural voice?
PERSPECTIVES
Applied Humanities: Bridging the Gap between Building Theory and Fostering Citizenship
By Svetlana Nikitina
Through teaching strategies designed to make abstract or theoretical concepts more tangible to students, humanities scholars can help advance the liberal education goal of fostering citizenship and social engagement.
Expecting More: Elevating Academic Standards in Public Universities
By Kenneth D. Stewart and Keith W. Schlegel
Even in nonselective and poorly funded institutions, faculty can reassert the value of education by acting to raise academic standards.
The Best of Both Worlds: Infusing Liberal Learning into a Business Curriculum
By Lynn S. Arenella, Angelique M. Davi, Cyrus R. Veeser, and Roy A. Wiggins III
Through a series of weeklong workshops, faculty in both business and the arts and sciences at Bentley College worked together to integrate liberal learning principles across the college’s overwhelmingly career-focused curriculum.
MY VIEW
How Not to Defend Liberal Arts Colleges
By Robert Shoenberg
Equating a liberal education with the study of the liberal arts and insisting that such an education is to be found today only in those colleges whose hallmark is a focus on the past does not help the cause of either the liberal arts or liberal education.
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