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| | White Paper >> Forum on Liberal Education |
 | | A fundamental challenge that AASCU chief executive officers face, then, is to lead our institutions toward a strengthening of liberal education as the bedrock of all professional specialization—a strengthening that will depend, for its success, on effectively illuminating the centrality of a liberal education to all undergraduates’ education. |
 | | Institutions in which liberal education is emphasized are places where students cannot hide, cannot use their energies to avoid the experiences and skills and exposures we want them to have and that we know they will need—critical thinking, cultural appreciation, adaptability (agility), and the development of a commitment to contributing to the public good. |
 | | We ask AASCU members at large to join us, the presidents and chancellors who comprise the Forum on Liberal Education, in strengthening attention across the country to the essential values to students, their future employers, and their future communities, provided by a liberal education. |
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