The following links lead to valuable information concerning liberal arts education:
Engaging Today's Students with the Liberal Arts
(An Associated Colleges of the Midwest collaborative project assessing
how academic and co-curricular programs encourage student engagement)
Contributions of America's International Liberal Arts Colleges
(from "In the International Interest," published in 1992 by the International Liberal Arts Colleges)
Liberal Arts for All, Not Just the Rich
William Durden, President, Dickinson College
Toward a Pragmatic Liberal Education: The Curriculum of the 21st Century
The Rollins Colloquy
Qualities of the Liberally Educated Person
William Cronon
Do the Liberal Arts Need Saving?
Transcript of the PBS program "Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg" (4/5/01)
LiberalArtsOnline
Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, Wabash College
IT for the Liberal Arts College: A Window of Opportunity
Robert E. Martin, Ewing T. Boles Professor of Economics at Centre College, and Samuel B. Fee, Director of Academic Technologies at Skidmore College
The Liberal Arts Colleges Program: Teaching and Technology, 1993 - 1997
An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Report
The Case for the Liberal Arts (in Tomorrow's Workplace)
Roger E. Herman, CEO, The Herman Group Originally published in the July-August 2000 issue of THE FUTURIST
Illiberal idea: Dangers in 'Vocationalizing' Liberal Arts Schools
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Hi-tech CEOs Say Value of Liberal Arts in Increasing
A statement by leaders of Canadian high-technology corporations underscoring the importance of liberal arts education in the digital economy.
A Liberal Education and Transferable Skills
An extract from a commencement address by late Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti
Engaging Today's Students with the Liberal Arts
An Associated Colleges of the Midwest collaborative project assessing how academic and co-curricular programs encourage student engagement
Science and the Liberal Arts College
Donald Kennedy, Editor-In-Chief, Science and President Emeritus Stanford University
The Environment for Scientific Research by Undergraduates:
Some Thoughts on Reading the Academic Excellence Study
Thomas R. Tritton, President, Haverford College
The Evidence Never Lies: Student Detectives in the Labratory
Lawrence J. Kaplan, Professor of Chemistry, Williams College
PKAL Occasional Paper #2: Challenges for the Future of Liberal Arts Colleges: Asking the Right Questions
Michael P. Doyle, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Trinity University
More Federal Support Needed for Undergraduate Science Education
Eugene M. Tobin, President, Hamilton College, Hogher Education and National Affairs (1/20/00, Vol. 49, No. 21)
Baccalaureate Origins of PH.D.s in the Sciences
Provided by the National Science Foundation
(Also see Survey of Earned Doctorates and Productivity Ratios for the Leading 100 Undergraduate Sources of Science and Engineering Ph.D.s ) |
