Sentences with phrase «of a liberal arts education»

Teachers need a renewed sense of their status as cultural and social leaders and therefore of the importance of liberal arts education in their preparation.

Art is a critical component of a liberal arts education.

Their questions ranged from how to make the most of a liberal arts education, to what services students need today, and what is the best way to become knowledgeable about education policy.

Those three factors — critical thinking, communication and problem - solving — are the backbone of a liberal arts education.

We set out to create something new: a full 360 - degree picture of a liberal arts education at one of America's most highly regarded colleges.

The humanistic contribution of the Renaissance improved the liberal arts, as well as modern natural and social sciences, must be a major part of any liberal arts education that would make sense today.

Dr. Phenix examines the central role of a liberal arts education in creating and maintaining human freedom.

During her tenure, she has shepherded two such plans designed to strengthen the school's mission: «educating a diverse residential community of women at the highest level of academic excellence and fostering the alliance of liberal arts education with purposeful engagement in the world.»

«Essentially, the students are reaping the benefits of a liberal arts education — small class size, general education curriculum, high contact with professors and a residential campus,» says Graham Miller, a second - year doctoral student and first author of the report.

So to that extent, we really make an effort to involve everybody in the college, and to talk about the value of liberal arts education holistically.»

Schools have continued to offer as an option a version of the liberal arts education they traditionally provided; but such concerns and the faculties supporting them have played steadily decreasing roles among the financial forces that drive the institutions.

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 study.

On the other hand leaders of the Bible school movement have been developing a theory of liberal arts education with the Bible at its center, and through an accrediting association have moved toward standardization and steady improvement of a program which seeks to synthesize conservative evangelical Christianity with a valid educational ideal.

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to create men and women who are truly and fundamentally free — not enslaved by their passions or their pride.

You could correctly surmise that I am not an advocate of liberal arts education as something intrinsic to Christian universities.

«Those things might be more salient characteristics of a liberal arts education than just strictly a major field or discipline.»

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.

In addition, we will make data - based recommendations on how to preserve the traditional purposes and strengths of liberal arts education, while also strengthening and, insofar as advisable, transforming this form of education so that it is appropriate and robust for our time.

But for other observers, both Race to the Top and the new standards represent a troubling departure from an expansive vision of liberal arts education stretching from its origins in antiquity to the founding of 19th century public schools and continuing through the present.

In the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education, researchers conducted a longitudinal study of 1,593 students and found that studying abroad increases intercultural competence.

«The curatorial studies program offers our students a unique opportunity to learn first - hand what it takes to create a first - class exhibition,» said Spelman President Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D. «It's also a prime example of the College's mission to develop programs and spaces much like the Museum and our planned arts, innovation and entrepreneurship center that harness the power of a liberal arts education.»

The show offers keen insight into the many ways that the College influenced the pedagogy of liberal arts education and studio art programs in the United States, and how the legacy of the school has come to shape generations of artists» works.

Founded in 1933 by the classics scholar John Andrew Rice and the engineer Theodore Dreier, it was a progressive institution based in Black Mountain, a small North Carolina town that aimed to place art making at the heart of a liberal arts education.

Before Law School: The Demise of Liberal Arts Education in Undergraduate Institutions.

New England Congregationalists who sought to bring their style of liberal arts education to the state founded Rollins College, the oldest college in Florida, in Winter Park in 1885.

of our liberal arts education curriculum (including history classes) is really an exercise in indoctrination.

From its beginnings in the 1870s, the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) has been guided by the understanding that original works of art can be a powerful component of the liberal arts education, embodying aesthetic rewards and a wealth of information about history and human culture.

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Reading at least portions of Smith's two master works, The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, should be a part of liberal arts education.

The conference was organized «to encourage thinking about the role of liberal arts education in an era of climate change.»

«Essentially, the students are reaping the benefits of a liberal arts education — small class size, general education curriculum, high contact with professors and a residential campus,» says Graham Miller, a second - year graduate student in education and the report's first author.

The Fed chairman also made a plea for the value of a liberal arts education.

Influenced by the utopian ideals of the progressive education movement, it placed the arts at the center of liberal arts education and believed that in doing so it could better educate citizens for participation in a democratic society.

Through rigorous outreach and engagement with the campus community across departments, the academic programs office encourages use of the Museum as a teaching resource, emphasizing first - hand conversation with artists and art objects as a central component of the liberal arts education.