Shooting the gap: Engaging Today's faculty in the liberal arts. From: Liberal Education | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Association of American Colleges and Universities. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

IN "WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN COLLEGE: How Students View and Value Liberal Education" (2005), Debra Humphreys and Abigail Davenport present the findings of a study that asked high school and college students about their impressions of liberal education. Humphreys and Davenport found that, on the whole, these students--including those already in college--did not have a working definition of a liberal education and did not spontaneously value the outcomes of such an education. In the course of the study, students were asked to consider a definition familiar to virtually everyone ...

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