For the Liberal Arts, Rhetoric Is Not Enough

The rhetoric of liberal education will not save liberal-arts colleges. But students and their parents understand the idea of small, intense classes looking at big questions. They understand the value of directed independent study, of study abroad, of undergraduate research, of having students doing...

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