A new building on the University Park campus brings several academic units in the Penn State College of the Liberal Arts in one building, which has helped to boost collaboration among faculty ...

Vander O.B. Ritchie ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a History and Philosophy concentrator in Leverett House. Harvard is supposed to be a liberal arts institution — but the arts are getting ...

Faculty members lined up Wednesday at the Capitol to defend the liberal arts, pleading for programs not be cut under a new set of “high-performing” metrics for schools that place value on job ...

Or philosophy, history, or English? This is the question at the heart of all the challenges that now bedevil liberal-arts departments on campuses across the country, a problem once dubbed the “t ...

As a result, liberal arts degrees face increasing criticism in policy discussions for failing to equip students with the knowledge and the skills valued in the labour market, often leading to ...

Going to a liberal arts college is usually an expensive way to get a bachelor’s degree. With students more mindful of high tuition, many liberal arts colleges are seeing enrollment drop—and ...

For years, the term “soft skills” has been applied to the abilities developed by liberal arts graduates. This reference is used in contrast to the tangible skills associated with technical degrees and ...

Liberal arts is a category of undergraduate and graduate degree programs that offers a foundation in the study of the human experience. Traditionally, liberal arts referred to writing, reasoning, ...

What sets students apart in the job market is not their GPA, but the soft skills they learn through lived experiences and extracurriculars — skills that can be achieved through a liberal arts ...

Liberal arts education, as Fareed Zakaria, author of In Defense of a Liberal Education, defines it, is learning how to write and speak well, how to think with reason ...

A bombshell story by a college newspaper reported the University of Wisconsin system president suggested chancellors consider shifting away from liberal arts. The story has campuses buzzing ...