Liberal Education Study

Carnegie's study of liberal education brought together educators from six professional fields with faculty from the liberal arts and sciences to focus on the interdependence of liberal education and professional training.

Senior Staff

Major Publication

A New Agenda for Higher Education: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice
William M. Sullivan, Matthew S. Rosin. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.  

In A New Agenda for Higher Education, the authors endorse higher education's utility for enhancing the practical as well as intellectual dimensions of life by developing a third, different conception of educational purpose. Based on the Carnegie Foundation seminar that brought together educators from six professional fields with faculty from the liberal arts and sciences, A New Agenda for Higher Education proposes an educational aim of "practical reason," focusing on the interdependence of liberal education and professional training.

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