What Makes the Liberal Arts Essential for the Next 50 Years? Panel Discussion

Liberal arts education, and each small college that delivers it quintessentially well, now occupies a tenuous position in our society. If the liberal arts are to be as foundational to our future as our past – capable of effecting a more connected, informed, and civic-minded nation and a more humane and just world – then what must we do differently, and how might we shape a new conversation with the public? In this discussion session, liberal arts college leaders will look to the future of liberal arts colleges. What is changing, what needs to change, and what are commitments that should endure even in the midst of change