President Christopher L. Eisgruber welcomed incoming students to campus during the annual Opening Exercises ceremony Sunday, Sept. 1, sharing his hopes that Princeton’s commitment to the liberal arts ...

After years of hand-wringing about their future, liberal arts departments now face the chopping block. At risk: French, German, American studies and women’s studies. By Anemona Hartocollis The ...

America’s higher education system was founded on the liberal arts and the widespread understanding that mass access to art, culture, language and science was essential if America was to thrive.

A liberal arts education means looking at our culture, our environment, our way of doing things as critical thinkers and being challenged to consider who and what we want to do.

Across the country, there is an ideological campaign against liberal arts fields, such as anthropology and art history, under the false notion that they these majors result in lower-paying jobs ...

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Although the advantages of liberal arts education is crystal clear, it has recently been subject to numerous attacks in U.S. higher education institutions. Michael Roth, historian who was trained with ...

While liberal arts education might, on the surface, appear to be old fashioned, out-of-date, and even counter cultural, it is critical to support and nurture it for several important reasons.