Sentences with phrase «other liberal arts»

With the associate's degree, you will also be required to take classes in English composition, math, and other liberal arts areas.

But if you're graduating from a college in Vermont with a degree in Glassblowing or any of the other Liberal Arts, the Prius will likely prompt a nod of approval from your kid's Patchouli - wearing, beardo friends.

Not exact matches

But unlike other private liberal arts colleges with large endowments, C of O, as it's often called, has accumulated its endowment all while offering four - year degrees to students tuition free.

Despite plenty of evidence that liberal arts graduates also have successful careers, undergraduates (and their parents) tend in tough times to encourage majors in business and engineering or other fields that seem to promise employment.

Along with Anthony Appiah and other current writers about the university, she acknowledges the intrinsic value of study (her most recent book on the topic is titled Not for Profit), while ultimately defending the value of liberal arts as essential for social and political progress.

For old - style liberals, politics is the art of compromise; for radicals it is the conduct of war by other means.

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.

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

Prospects for a national evangelical university to be located in the suburban New York area faltered in the «60s when some conferees pushed for a new Presbyterian seminary, others for a Bible college, still others for reinforcement of Wheaton as an already existing liberal arts college.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

A minority of cultivated men (and a few women) went on from grammar to rhetoric, to the «encyclical studies» which included arithmetic, music and other «liberal arts», and some ventured into philosophy.

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 targets of a new federal probe into possible antitrust violations related to early - decision college admissions include Wesleyan University, Middlebury College and Pomona College, as well as at least four other highly selective liberal - arts schools.

The authors acknowledge some liberal arts colleges have «expanded their programs and changed their names to enter into new prestige markets in order to compete against other comprehensive universities instead of against elite liberal arts colleges.»

On the other hand, students at historically black liberal arts colleges often work at research universities during the summer, Hammonds says, so she isn't sure how large an effect small colleges have.

Also, other studies have found that students from less - educated families tend to flock more to STEM fields or others with higher earnings returns than students of educated parents, who might be more inclined to choose a liberal arts degree.

The Department also presents a range of courses that address the Liberal Arts Foundation requirements in the natural sciences for undergraduate students in disciplines other than Physics.

While the films marks Olsen's screen debut and is certainly the most anticipated of her upcoming features, it's hardly the only place she'll appear: The 22 - year - old has already shot four other films, including the dramatic comedy «Peace, Love and Misunderstanding» opposite Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener, and she plays Josh Radnor's younger friend and love interest in the college - set «Liberal Arts.»

We have the Consortium for Liberal Arts in Prison which has worked to establish different programs which are run by other superb colleges and universities across the country.

And unlike the case in other countries, where higher education is essentially vocational or professional, American colleges and universities offered liberal arts education — a broad set of courses which developed analytic, creative and communicative capacities.

Most crucially, we attend key professional meetings and host on - site meetings where we will offer specific recommendations about how lessons from these programs can be drawn on by (or transferred to) other individuals, programs, and institutions that seek to offer appropriate quality liberal arts education in the years ahead.

Washington — Secretary of Education William J. Bennett plans to team up with Allan Bloom, the University of Chicago scholar, to form a research center to study liberal - arts education and other public - Education Department officials said last week.

Applications for admission next fall to computer schools at California Polytechnic State University, Carnegie Mellon University, and other popular degree programs have fallen, with students seeking out majors in other specialized fields, or broader, liberal arts degrees.

For example, it required us to explore, acknowledge, and address the concerns of faculty in other locations on campus, such as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, of faculty in other departments in the COE, and of teachers and administrators in the local schools.

Many school leaders have found ways to preserve the liberal arts, such as incorporating reading and mathematics into other classes.

Social studies and history teachers say they are encouraged that the creators of the Common Core, a set of English language arts and math standards that California and 42 other states have adopted, weave liberal doses of history and science into the standards» approach to literacy and numeracy.

The teachers unions, like so many others, have missed their opportunity to behave more like guildes, advancing the quality of their craft by working with administration to restore the liberal arts curriculum and the discipline necessary to the orderly classrooms necessary to learning itself.

In fact, the liberal arts are a critical piece to school turn around implementation because it incorporates the other types of learners that may not be strong analytically or numerically as those who are successful in STEM.

Some will continue to be liberal arts colleges, others will be comprehensive universities, others will prepare for careers.

In other cases, we asked pupils to comment on the disciplinary knowledge they acquired outside their education courses and to analyze how various disciplinary approaches to the liberal arts were applied to classroom situations.

More than 50 % of college graduates attend more than one higher education institution before receiving a bachelor's degree (Ewell, Schild, & Paulson, 2003), and approximately 60 % of teacher education occurs in general liberal arts and sciences, and other academic departments outside of teacher education.

Successful tech companies have a strong identity that separates them from the others — from Facebook's hacker culture to Apple at the intersection of liberal arts and technology.

Dr. Jeffrey Katz, Alumni Professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts, is the other recipient of this prestigious award.

Like many other professional dog trainers, Jamie didn't pursue a career in dog training until she had already worked in a different field for several years; she has a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and previously did legal and administrative work.

Suites of saints, virtues, vices, the signs of the zodiac and the seven liberal arts were also common, as were narrative series that recounted stories from the Bible and other religious and mythological subjects such as the Labors of Hercules, the Flight into Egypt, the Passion of Christ, and the Life of the Virgin.

The requirements in this area are satisfied by courses offered by The Cooper Union Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences or by transfer credit for liberal arts courses taken at other institutions.

Alcombright and other civic and cultural leaders praised the energy and vision of Mary Grant, the president of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

For the project, the Tang will work with other institutions of higher education, such as the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium and area community colleges, as well as area school districts and community groups that serve racially diverse populations in the region.

Undergraduates establish strong photographic practices and discourses through the study of analog and digital processes, the history and theory of photography, and the development of critical thinking and writing skills through required and elective courses in photography, other creative disciplines, and the liberal arts.

In that vein, the Art Center sought to forge distinctive partnerships with other Chicago institutions and leaders in the visual arts, like The Joyce Foundation, The University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies, and the visiting professionals who provide guidance and feedback to artists in the program.

Though typically labeled an Abstract Expressionist, his work might better be described as abstract and expressionist, with liberal doses of Surrealism, Art Brut, and a few other eclectic affinities thrown into the mix.

In other words, they were giving up everything that made Cooper Union special and unique, to become just like any other small liberal - arts college.

[1] They revealed, among other things, that most visitors were related in some way to the professions of art, art teaching, and museology, and most were politically liberal.

About Purchase College Founded on the principle that artists and scholars are indispensable to each other and to an enlightened society, Purchase College combines professional conservatory programs in the visual and performing arts and distinguished programs in the liberal arts and sciences.

-- January 1943 on the following topics: the value of a broad liberal arts education, such as the one provided by Black Mountain College, to solders and others during World War II.

On the other end of the pro-coding spectrum stand the Liberal Arts Majors.

There's a reason people are experts in things, and why you're a professional lawyer, and other people are professional accountants, and all this... I am a liberal arts advocate in general, but all this dabbling that lawyers get into is just so unproductive.

A group calling itself «York Faculty Concerned About the Future of York University» protested the appointment of Martin Singer of the new Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, questioning his credentials and attaching a letter from other academics who did disclose their names.

A major in liberal arts, on the other hand, are at the bottom of the list when it comes to the highest paying jobs.

Liberal Arts graduates are not very well employed compared to other graduates.