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Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberalarts. I know I can find support for the value of the liberalarts among the leaders of the very STEM disciplines whose popularity my colleagues decry.
These programs too often lead to “poor outcomes, including poor retention, poor graduate employability, and poor long-term earnings potential,” the authors said. The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberalarts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology.
Across the four countries analysed in the report, employer demand was similar in 2022, with engineering, computerscience, nursing and business graduates highly sought after. “There is going to be a continuing need for liberalarts because critical thinking is still a fundamental skill,” he detailed.
Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a LiberalArts College.” Factors Contributing to Student Retention in Online Learning and Recommended Strategies for Improvement: A Systematic Literature Review.” Education Sciences 12, no. doi:10.34190/EEL.19.012.
Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a LiberalArts College.” Factors Contributing to Student Retention in Online Learning and Recommended Strategies for Improvement: A Systematic Literature Review.” Education Sciences 12, no. doi:10.34190/EEL.19.012.
Our BSDT students are meeting expected outcomes in retention, graduation and learning, including outcomes related to their performance in Clark liberal studies courses. The old adage “strategy should drive organizational change, not the other way around,” very much holds true.
To raise retention rates and help diversify access to high demand fields, campuses expand existing learning support centers, including writing, math and science learning centers; summer bridge programs; and supplemental instruction in fields experiencing high attrition rates.
People often worry about liberalarts majors in these conversations. Liberalarts majors have some sort of ROI, and while they might not have it immediately in terms of how much they’re making, we can see an exponential increase in their salary after the first few years.
What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberalarts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberalarts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.
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