Last month, as he presided over the elimination of 28 academic programs and 143 faculty positions—most notably the dismantling of the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics—West ...

The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It by John Agresto (2022, Encounter Books), 256 pages. Since Allan Bloom's bestselling classic Closing of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about higher ed issues, leadership, finance, and innovation. Colleges and universities, like so many institutions in our ...

Answering the perennial question of what university education should be requires a return to first principles. Speak to many Duke students and you get the idea that the university is failing to shore ...

Is liberal education losing in power to attract youth? This is alleged in many quarters. In college and secondary school, the studies which wear a vocational aspect are being preferred, we are told, ...

Among the many crises we face in the United States, the chief one is that we don’t know how to be free. Far too many students (and adults) think of liberty not as a condition requiring virtue and ...

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 ...

The Curricular Ecologies Learning Lab - or CELL - provides direct support to faculty and departments to revisit, revise, and refresh programmatic offerings with a “total curriculum” approach. The ...

How should we think about assessment in general education — or what we sometimes call liberal education — in the pluralistic environment of American higher education? “General education” is ...

Over 25 years ago, I entered college and began a life in liberal education. Before college, my high-school identity in a small town had centered on playing football and chasing girls. When I graduated ...

On January 23, AEI’s Benjamin Storey hosted John Agresto, former president of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a conversation about his latest book, The Death of Learning: How American ...

In an era defined by rapidly changing careers, evolving student needs, and technological transformation, liberal arts education faces a vital question: how can it remain both meaningful and relevant?