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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

We know our faculty wish to avoid any further educational disruptions to graduate students and undergraduate students who have experienced so many disruptions in recent years. But this, too, was voluntary and not part of students’ official coursework.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. The guilds all controlled their membership and awarded their own qualifications.

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