Penn's College of Arts and Sciences will pilot a new curriculum for first-year students in the 2025-26 academic year.

Some academic fields, however, have sustained enrollment declines for years, including the broad category that encompasses four-year liberal arts and sciences/general studies and humanities programs.

Liberal arts education—the concept of using reason and evidence to determine the truthfulness of knowledge—can help them develop the ability to succeed despite, or even because of, challenges.

A liberal arts education can provide you with this hidden superpower: an interdisciplinary and well-rounded base of knowledge that is strong in critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving.

The value of a liberal arts education lies not just in the degree earned, but in the habits of mind and heart developed. At Saint Ben’s and Saint John’s, we cultivate curiosity, encourage deep ...

It shows that those with a liberal arts education have a more than 60% chance of landing in the top two highest tax brackets in the U.S. Realizing the importance of a comprehensive education, I ...

Liberal arts vs. workforce needs is ongoing conversation in higher education. Debate about the value of liberal arts is nothing new.. Advocates argue that disciplines like English, history and ...

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 ...

Accordingly, when we speak of ‘liberal arts education’ in the discussion which follows,… we wish to be understood as meaning non-vocational and non-professional education.… Throughout history, various ...

Medical schools, writes Whitla, have become increasingly more aware of the importance of liberal arts backgrounds. But at Harvard, at least, the students have not; in 1949, 47% of those who went ...

A purely economic driven higher education policy misses the mark,” writes Tyson Riskas in an op-ed. “Universities shape minds ...