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Professor Abraham Unger has a unique vision for liberal arts education. Long before before spending a decade as Director of Urban Programs at Wagner College in New York, he was an undergraduate student concentrating on classical guitar at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. In this episode of Higher Ed Now, he sits down with ACTA’s president Michael Poliakoff and producer Doug Sprei to reflect on the precarious condition of colleges and universities today, and to explore the concept he is shaping for liberal arts education based on the conservatory model he experienced as an undergraduate.
Dr. Jackson is responsible for ACTA’s academic publications and for initiatives relating to academic freedom, free expression, civics education, and curricular improvement. This includes…
Steve McGuire, ACTA’s Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom, hosts a conversation on modern liberal education with Jennifer Frey, who is set to begin a new appointment as inaugural dean of the honors college at the University of Tulsa in July 2023.
Americans are divided when it comes to what they are looking for in a college experience. For many, the ideal is a large, well-known university where students can prepare themselves for a successful professional career, such as engineering. Others value a small college th...
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