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An Apology for the Liberal Arts

HEPI

Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees. What is the purpose of a university education? If nothing else, the common wisdom is clear about what a student should avoid: a course in the liberal arts. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance?

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Strikes disrupt undergraduate learning anew

Inside Higher Ed

Michael Meranze, a professor of history at UCLA who has written about the strike, told Inside Higher Ed , “There is no question that the strike has had a real effect on instruction and thereby on the undergraduates. But this, too, was voluntary and not part of students’ official coursework.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. The grant of the MA has undergone changes.

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