Is liberal education losing in power to attract youth? This is alleged in many quarters. In college and secondary school, the studies which wear a vocational aspect are being preferred, we are told, ...

The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It by John Agresto (2022, Encounter Books), 256 pages. Since Allan Bloom's bestselling classic Closing of the ...

Among the many crises we face in the United States, the chief one is that we don’t know how to be free. Far too many students (and adults) think of liberty not as a condition requiring virtue and ...

Last month, as he presided over the elimination of 28 academic programs and 143 faculty positions—most notably the dismantling of the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics—West ...

Answering the perennial question of what university education should be requires a return to first principles. Speak to many Duke students and you get the idea that the university is failing to shore ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about higher ed issues, leadership, finance, and innovation. Colleges and universities, like so many institutions in our ...

In recent months, those of us who care about the humanist tradition in education have watched with dismay as right-wing politicians clear space for what they dubiously call “traditional education,” ...

Faculty members and other supporters of the liberal arts gathered at Ursinus College last week to debate what liberal education is and how best to attract students to it. At a conference on such ...

For years, many of our country’s most wealthy and privileged families have ignored shifting educational fashions and continued to send their children to high-quality residential colleges and ...

Over 25 years ago, I entered college and began a life in liberal education. Before college, my high-school identity in a small town had centered on playing football and chasing girls. When I graduated ...

Regardless of major, all students work to include the final curriculum for liberal education courses necessary to graduate. The purpose of liberal education is to provide the foundations and habits of ...

Liberal arts education, as Fareed Zakaria, author of In Defense of a Liberal Education, defines it, is learning how to write and speak well, how to think with reason ...