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Harvard Must Rethink Its Approach To Liberal Arts

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I do not believe that undergraduate education should always be so work-focused. While many higher-education institutions (including Harvard’s graduate and professional schools) should be

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Liberal Lessons in Taking Back America - The New York Times

Having beautiful experiences, reflecting on them, adding to them, rethinking earlier experiences—these are also important desiderata of education. I want to ensure that people in

Yale is committed to the idea of a liberal arts education through which students think and learn across disciplines, liberating or freeing the mind to its fullest potential. The essence of such an

First, the “liberal arts” is currently a meaningless term and desperately needs to be redefined for the future. Second, Harvard is not an island unto itself, and all of its resources

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In the new century, the world has witnessed “liberal arts education” or “general education” expand in university undergraduate education (Gillespie Citation 2001; Kirby and

In an award-winning career — which has included MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, the University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Award in Education, and innumerable honorary degrees

political philosophy in which all the subsequent heavy lifting must be done through the use of rational argumentation, effectively abandoning the need for myth. This approach is sometimes

Rethinking liberal arts Yale-NUS, Minerva

On February 7, 2007, Harvard University published a report on its liberal arts education reform on its school website. This was the final report of Harvard’s three-year

Harvard has been at the center of the administration’s battle over higher education. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Laura Meckler of The Washington Post for our series,

for discussing its contemporary global resurgence. Analysis from the Global Liberal Education Inventory provides an overview of liberal education’s renewed presence in each of the regions

Harvard believes in the transformative potential of liberal arts education. And it is through this remarkable power of liberal arts that Harvard pursues its mission to educate the

Harvard believes in the transformative potential of liberal arts education. And it is through this remarkable power of liberal arts that Harvard pursues its mission to “educate the

Only by more richly integrating the norms and practices of liberal arts colleges might design thinking reach its greatest potential and deliver its highest benefit to society.

US liberal arts colleges like Amherst, Wellesley, and Swarthmore continue to offer a remarkable education, while Ivy League universities like Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and

Report of the FAS Task Force on Visual Culture & Signage

Garber’s conciliatory tone suggests he intends to take a diplomatic approach — rather than a defiant one — as he interacts with an incoming presidential administration that

the United States. Li (2010) later also translated the famous Harvard Report, “General Education in a Free society: A Report of Harvard Committee.” Much criticism on local practices has also

Yale-NUS, Nicholas Lemann, and Minerva remodel liberal arts for the twenty-first century.

Garber Privately Tells Faculty That Harvard Must Rethink Messaging After GOP Victory . Advertisement. Advertisement. Op Eds. Liberal Artifice: How the “Liberal Arts” Can

The First Amendment, adopted in 1791, establishes that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging

In the “Harvard Thinking” podcast, an economist, an educator, and a philosopher make the case it’s as essential as ever in today’s job market.

Harvard Campaign has early impact — Harvard Gazette

Currently, the university is in Phase 2 of its approach. Its leaders aim to increase undergraduate enrollment significantly and to roll out a graduate school, with ambitious plans for a PhD

Recently, a faculty committee released a report suggesting that many students prioritize extracurriculars over their courses. I, for one, am unsurprised. In my experience,

There is much to learn from the history of the liberal arts, for its own sake and for pragmatic reasons. Specifically, the liberal arts tradition is a diverse, even discontinuous one.

In this episode, host Samantha Laine Perfas talks with economist David Deming, educator Nancy Hill, and philosophy Professor Susanna Siegel about how to make a liberal arts education

The purpose of a liberal arts curriculum should be to inspire students to be independent, life-long learners, and fostering independent learning requires guidance.

In order to educate citizens and citizen-leaders, Harvard must instill free thinking because it is necessary to be informed and engaged. In short, beyond our individual academic

Almost 80 years ago The Atlantic published an essay by the Harvard professor E. K. Rand bemoaning what he saw as the dilution of liberal arts programmes. His June 1943 piece titled “ Bring back the liberal arts ” may

We are told that a liberal arts education teaches us how to think rather than what to think. In spring 2023, I got a chance to experience a different approach to education when I

This report calls for Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to adopt a more dynamic, welcoming, and inclusive approach to its visual culture and signage. The time has come to

The term liberal (arts) education is often used to capture this specific ideal of education, functioning to differentiate the key institution of modern higher learning, the university, from

Networked technologies are complex, multi-layered, interdependent, and subject to multiple competing interests. Through original research and by creating connections between