The Republican-backed tax and spending bill signed into law by President Donald Trump on Friday has major implications for Maine higher education institutions, from medical school to liberal arts ...

In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

Many colleges react to educational crises by cutting budgets and limiting programs. Bard College takes a different approach. When Leon Botstein identifies a problem in American education, his instinct ...

A scholar and former college dean explains why higher education’s reliance on majors to measure academic quality may be an ...

David Foster Wallace delivered one of the most widely shared and admired graduation speeches of all time. It still rewards ...

Vander O.B. Ritchie ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a History and Philosophy concentrator in Leverett House. Harvard is supposed to be a liberal arts institution — but the arts are getting ...

Many Catholics have heard of the liberal arts movement, but most do not associate it with elementary or high-school-level education. Catholic universities that specialize in the traditional ...

Perhaps most interestingly, research shows that when your undergraduate education remains broad, you will earn more in your lifetime, independent of socioeconomic status when entering college. It ...

DISCUSSING liberal education and the liberal arts in this century makes us more aware of the 'tremendous impacts of massification and vocationalism, which are powerful pressures against liberal ...

By liberal arts, we mean a broad-based education that aspires to send out into society an educated citizenry prepared to make its way responsibly in an ever-more complex and divided world.

We need to shift our mindset about learning and pursue courses that challenge our thinking. In short, we need to bring back liberal arts education. In recent years, there’s been a growing ...