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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

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’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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Higher Education Reading List

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History Kimball, Bruce A.: Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education , expanded edition. Liberal Arts Leadership and the Liberal Arts: Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education , edited by J. Roth, Michael: Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

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program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. history survey course to be delivered in the summer.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

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which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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President’s corner: How Rob Vischer balances growth with century-old values at University of St. Thomas

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Thomas in January during a pivotal period in its 139-year history. Once a s mall Catholic liberal arts college, St. Thomas, dating back to becoming an associate law professor in 2005. Rob Vischer took over the University of St. “We need everybody leaning in.”

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How College Transforms Students

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For the first time in history, substantial numbers of young women lived outside of a family home, not as servants but as mill girls, earning an independent income and living with other young women. Terenzini’s How College Affects Students (originally published in 1991 and revised in 2005 and updated in 2016 by Matthew J.

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