Comments on: Get Tactical: Promote the Liberal Arts—NOW http://liberalartsadvantage.com/2012/12/10/get-tactical-promote-the-liberal-arts-now/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 19:27:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alfred Poor, Speaker and Writer http://liberalartsadvantage.com/2012/12/10/get-tactical-promote-the-liberal-arts-now/#comment-174 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:24:22 +0000 http://liberalartsadvantage.wordpress.com/?p=321#comment-174 I agree about the power of a liberal arts education, but there’s one step missing in you suggestions. We need to tell the students that “hiring managers are desperate to find people who can write, reason, manage qualitative information, distinguish fact from distortion, conduct research, and think systemically.” And we need to get faculty and the rest of the college staff to hold students accountable for these skills, not just in “career” courses, but in all aspects of their academic and campus lives.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama said “Tonight, I ask Congress to change the Higher Education Act, so that affordability and value are included in determining which colleges receive certain types of federal aid.” Unless liberal arts programs can clearly demonstrate their “affordability and value” to their students, their families, and the federal government, they are going to continue to lose financial support.

]]> By: schiu25 http://liberalartsadvantage.com/2012/12/10/get-tactical-promote-the-liberal-arts-now/#comment-169 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:57:56 +0000 http://liberalartsadvantage.wordpress.com/?p=321#comment-169 Nice post! Good thing I don’t live in Florida because I’ll probably be majoring in liberal arts.

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