AAUP and AACU Issue Statement On Liberal Arts

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) have issued a joint statement on liberal arts.

They like them: “In recent years, the disciplines of the liberal arts, once universally regarded as central to the intellectual life of the university, have been steadily moved to the periphery and increasingly threatened—by some administrators, elected officials, journalists, and parents of college-age children. The study of the history of human societies and forms of human expression is now too often construed as frivolous, and several colleges and universities have recently announced the wholesale elimination of liberal arts departments.”

And, like that.

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