Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The term “liberal arts” is one of the most misunderstood terms in the public discourse on higher education today. A higher ...

Faculty members and other supporters of the liberal arts gathered at Ursinus College last week to debate what liberal education is and how best to attract students to it. At a conference on such ...

There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

While I commend Heidi Anwiler for her May 18, 2017 letter, "Here's what being a liberal means to me" and the courage it took to publicly make the proclamations within, she left more questions than ...