About this blog About my company, Brazen Careerist Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to manage a college education Posted to: College students January 21st, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The idea of paying
for a liberal arts education is over.
Despite my appreciation
for liberal arts education, I do not favor making it a part of all education beyond high school.
Not exact matches
For employees, the experience is akin to a never - ending
liberal arts education with the world's most prestigious faculty.
He has said he values his
liberal -
arts education for the communication, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills it afforded him.
Formerly, when the
liberal arts college was the major form of higher
education, and when it understood its mission as the prepartion of leaders
for society, there was some chance of such health.
Liberal arts education has devolved, according to many critics, into advocacy
for progressive ideas.
And classical music has been driven out by rock music, whose explicit sexual themes lead to rebellion against parental authority and to ruin of the youthful imagination, making «it very difficult
for them to have a passionate relationship to the
art and thought that are the substance of
liberal education» (p. 79).
If modern
liberal education is to provide
for the nurture of free men, it must regain the ideal of generality which characterized the traditional
liberal arts, but it must do so without sacrificing the variety and scope made possible by modern advances in knowledge.
By focusing on the well - being of students after graduation in relation to their undergraduate program, the report returned to a basic premise of a
liberal -
arts education: moral formation
for civic life.
Of course, a
liberal arts approach to
education underpinned by such a grand narrative is not the only possibility
for Catholic educators.
My argument is not
for some holy campaign, as Bushman suggests, but
for a good ol'
liberal arts education as most conducive to the full exercise of divine intelligence.
Joseph Clair is director of the William Penn Honors Program and associate dean
for the
liberal arts at George Fox University, and author of a forthcoming book on Augustine and
education.
Whereas prior to World War II
liberal arts colleges provided the model
for higher
education, and universities were
liberal arts colleges with graduate and professional schools attached to them, now the heart of higher
education became preparation
for a job.
For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts — the «great books» — as a vital element of a liberal arts education during a time when demands for multiculturalism led to the dismantling of a number of traditional programs of stu
For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts — the «great books» — as a vital element of a
liberal arts education during a time when demands
for multiculturalism led to the dismantling of a number of traditional programs of stu
for multiculturalism led to the dismantling of a number of traditional programs of study.
This American ideal
for education was institutionalized in the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, encouraging the state schools oriented toward agricultural and technical
education that developed as alternatives to the
liberal arts colleges.
Liberal arts education does not exclude majors, and
for those who plan to teach in high school, such majors will be important.
My first proposal
for the reorganization of higher
education accented the distinctive role of the professions and the importance of
liberal arts in this context.
Actually, I incline to think it would be a better
education for this purpose than the
liberal arts one.
Whereas a
liberal arts education may provide some basis
for viewing the global economy critically and making judgments as to how one wants to relate to it, very few students in universities are exposed to that kind of reflection.
Most people who care about higher
education have a handful of similar stories, projecting a dismal forecast
for the
liberal arts.
They have created and run organizations aimed at restoring a classical
liberal arts education for students of all ages.
In the years following, Sunbridge College's offerings grew, eventually encompassing numerous full - and part - time certificate and degree programs and courses in Waldorf Teacher
Education, Biography and Social
Art,
Liberal Studies, Remedial
Education (now the Association
for a Healing
Education), Waldorf Administration and Community Development, Applied
Arts (now the Fiber Craft Studio) and other affiliated fields.
The delegations have included former Labour Minister
for Education and Minister
for the
Arts, Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Labour's current Shadow Minister
for Early Years, Tracy Brabin, and former Secretary of State
for Scotland, former Government Deputy Chief Whip and
Liberal Democrat MP
for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael.
In August 2017, former Labour Minister
for Education and Minister
for the
Arts, Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Labour's current Shadow Minister
for Early Years, Tracy Brabin, and former Secretary of State
for Scotland, former Government Deputy Chief Whip and
Liberal Democrat MP
for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael, were part of a Caabu / Medical Aid
for Palestinians delegation to the West Bank.
Liberal -
Arts Learning Outcomes of Professional Majors,» will present their findings Nov. 21 at the Association
for the Study of Higher
Education's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
The Fed chairman also made a plea
for the value of a
liberal arts education.
About Sweet Briar College Sweet Briar College is consistently ranked among the nation's top
liberal arts colleges.ÿ Founded in 1901 as an independent undergraduate college
for women, Sweet Briar continues its commitment to the
education of women, offering a full range of
liberal arts majors, including subjects traditionally considered male domains.
Since moving to Howard University, Anderson has served as chair of the Department of Zoology (1975 - 1983) and received the Award
for Academic Excellence from the College of
Liberal Arts and the citation
for excellence in graduate
education from the Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences.
He holds a M.A. in Higher
Education Administration from the Boston College Lynch School of
Education, a business certificate from the Carroll School of Management and Winston Center
for Ethics at Boston College, and a B.A. in American Studies from the
Liberal Arts Honors Program at Providence College.
April 21 —
Art: The School of Visual
Arts is inviting participants in its 1995 National Conference on
Liberal Arts and the
Education of Artists, to be held in New York City Oct. 18 - 21, to submit proposals
for open sessions on the following topics: Whither the
Arts — The Right, the Left, and the (Dead) Center;
Art and Regionalism; Government Funding of the
Arts: Pro and Con; Politics and Graphic Design; Politics and the Studio Curriculum; New Challenges to Multiculturalism; Public Television: Yes or No?
I have a passion
for science, english, and a vibrant and deep public
liberal arts education.
Last fall, Wesleyan University launched its privately funded, two - year pilot program, the Center
for Prison
Education, which offers a liberal arts education to inmates at Cheshire Correctional I
Education, which offers a
liberal arts education to inmates at Cheshire Correctional I
education to inmates at Cheshire Correctional Institute.
While I have come to recognize the value of such schools
for some students, parents, and teachers, I continue to subscribe to the ideal of a humanistic
liberal arts education that is highly prescriptive and, while global in scope, grounded in the intellectual, aesthetic, and moral traditions of western civilization.
At Harvard, I studied higher
education and learned about the law of
education, board governance, the goals of
liberal arts education, and the importance of access
for students in need.
Under the name of democratic
education for all, only a minority received the grounding in the
liberal arts that all children need in order to use their minds well and to enjoy a full life, whatever their eventual occupation.
While the Committee of Ten did suggest different programs of study
for high schools (
for example, programs specializing in classical languages, science and mathematics, or modern languages) and introduced the concept of electives to American high schools, its guiding principle was that all students should receive the same high - quality
liberal arts education.
For every person who believes that the high school's mission is to supply all students with a solid
liberal arts education, someone else is convinced that young people's differing tastes and aspirations should preclude uniformity of academic standards and curriculum.
Now, informally dressed and over a glass of beer on the back porch of his summer compound on Cape Cod, he interviewed me (in his capacity as a board member)
for the position of executive director of the Council
for Basic
Education, a national organization which championed the
liberal arts for all students at the pre-college level.
Colleges and universities must both prepare students to succeed in a competitive job market and provide the
liberal arts foundation necessary
for lifelong learning, said the participants in the series, «Preparing
for a Good Future: What Kind of
Education Do We Want After High School?»
After 16 years of deploying thousands of motivated college
liberal -
arts graduates to work in the nation's urban and rural schools, Teach
For America plans to launch an early - childhood -
education initiative this coming fall.
The whole concept of higher
education is under debate in America today — public versus private versus
for - profit, preprofessional versus
liberal arts, in - person versus online.
[xvi] And don't forget that research universities — and
liberal arts colleges with significant research expectations
for their faculty — are a modest part of all of U.S. higher
education.
Ultimately, these carefully analyzed data will form the basis
for recommendations about how higher
education in the
liberal arts and sciences should be rethought and, as necessary, reinvented
for the 21st century.
Our research team from the Harvard Graduate School of
Education has launched an ambitious project, aimed at preserving the heart of a liberal arts and science education while rethinking and, as necessary, reinventing it to be adequate and appropriate for o
Education has launched an ambitious project, aimed at preserving the heart of a
liberal arts and science
education while rethinking and, as necessary, reinventing it to be adequate and appropriate for o
education while rethinking and, as necessary, reinventing it to be adequate and appropriate
for our times.
For example, the concept of «
liberal arts»
education is often unheard of in Iraq.
Academic Atrophy: The Condition of the
Liberal Arts in America's Public Schools was written by Claus von Zastrow with Helen Janc and published by the Council
for Basic
Education, Washington, DC, March 2004.
Betsy Olney Goldfarb, the administrator planning the first high school in the small Ascend charter network, was on the hunt
for exceptional teachers interested in providing a broad
liberal arts education.
The project coordinators included a full professor from
liberal arts, an associate professor from science, the director of the university center
for integrating technology into students» learning experiences, and the half - time graduate student from
education.
Gardner is already well known
for his theory of multiple intelligences, and he is going to use this grant to investigate the alliances and differences among
Liberal Arts educations across the United States.
Among her many memberships, she has also served as the president, secretary and board member in the following organizations; Staff Development Council of Arizona, The Arizona Association of Colleges
for Teacher
Education, The American Association of Colleges
for Teacher
Education, The Association of Independent
Liberal Arts Colleges
for Teacher
Education, Arizona Commission
for Postsecondary
Education, National Science Teachers Association Arizona Science Teachers Association, and Arizona Rural Schools Association.