Jacob Riyeff asks how higher education can achieve its aim of scrutinizing reality when students don’t even seem to recognize ...

A liberal arts education means something, and colleges that slash programs should stop using the term in their promises to students, Christopher A. Snyder writes.

An education in the liberal arts and sciences allows us to think about a problem or a proposal from many different angles and to decide for ourselves what to believe.

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 ...

My former student sent me a recent column published in Newsweek by its editor, Jon Meacham, on “liberal education,” the basics of which the students are supposed to receive here at Georgetown. The ...

Although a liberal-arts education has never been common in most of the world, she thinks that this decline puts contemporary industrial societies at risk of “producing generations of useful ...

'It is especially urgent to advocate effectively for a broadly based pragmatic liberal education when confronted by ignorant authoritarians who reject inquiry in favor of fear mongering and ...

Every administrator in higher education should follow the example of Herman Wells in supporting the liberal arts, even when it is difficult to explain what the practical benefit of the arts and ...

For the traditionalists, the liberal arts mean the great humanistic tradition of Western philosophy. Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Locke, Kant, and so forth.

The problems in contemporary liberal education are exacerbating problems in our practice of liberal democracy.

The power and effectiveness of a business education come from its existence within the liberal arts.

Stanford's shrewd President Ray Lyman Wilbur and his trustees were not born yesterday: they know how to take advantage of a trend by going against it. Last week, as liberal arts colleges all ...