Catholic education intends to cultivate virtuous persons, “little Christs,” who can go into the world and change the world. Herrad of Landesburg, “The Seven Liberal Arts,” ca. 1180 (photo ...

The liberal arts are being threatened and, in some cases, completely abandoned as part of cost-cutting measures. Americans are wondering what the actual advantage of a liberal arts education is. In ...

Even though a liberal arts education does not produce jobs or directly benefit one’s ability to serve in the workforce, it benefits people in all careers in a very tangible way.

But the concern of a liberal arts education is not with communicating the skills and knowledge necessary for engaging in some specific vocation or profession. Rather, though its focus is on none, its ...

A literature scholar explains. “Liberal arts” really means education that is broad, and not strictly vocational, in that it gives you the ability to exercise free choice as a citizen and thinker.

L iberal education and the liberal arts have fallen on hard times of late. And if we think there’s reason to resuscitate and revive them, and still a window in which to do so, we better not rely ...

Amid a rising clamour from politicians and others for tightly stringing together higher education and the job market, a disparate voice is trying to make itself heard. This voice emphasises that a ...

Although the advantages of liberal arts education is crystal clear, it has recently been subject to numerous attacks in U.S. higher education institutions. Michael Roth, historian who was trained with ...

He promoted a liberal-arts education that would be useful and applicable for all graduates, no matter what their occupations or service -- including, unequivocally, business.

At stake is the right to a liberal-arts education. Should schools like WVU bleed dry, the liberal arts will become even more of a luxury, available only to people of means.

Across the U.S., the age-old debate about the value of a liberal arts education has seemingly devolved into mortal combat, leaving the humanities in dire straits on college campuses.

Blame administrators, not students, for the decline of “old-fashioned” liberal arts in higher education, a philosophy ...