LibGuides: English: ENG 111 Fall 2024 -- Dr. Collins

How to Use This Guide

Use this guide for additional resources for Dr. Collins' ENG 111 Freshman Composition I courses, Fall 2024.

Academic Journal Articles from Library Databases

What is a liberal arts education, and what is its purpose?

Check out the scholarly journal articles linked below.

Use CU Search or any of our databases to find additional academic journal articles.

Anti-intellectualism and Education Reform, by Johann N. Neem
Composing a Good Strong Story: The Advantages of a Liberal Arts Environment for Experiencing and Exploring the Narrative Complexity of Human Life, by William Randall
A Defense of Higher Education and Its Civic Mission, by Peter Levine
A Distinctive Vision for the Liberal Arts: General Education and the Flourishing of Christian Higher Education, by Cynthia A. Wells
The Experience of Liberal Education, Edward L. Ayers
From Cloistered to Connected: The Practical Turn in American Liberal Education, Carol Geary Schneider
Giant Leaps for the Liberal Arts at Purdue, by Melinda S. Zook
The Global Liberal Arts Challenge, Jonathan Becker
How Broad Liberal Arts Training Produces PhD Economists, by Jenny Bourne & Nathan D Grawe
How to Drink from the Pierian Spring: A Liberal Arts and Humanities Question about the Limits of Honors Education, Christopher Keller
The Intrinsic Value of the Liberal Arts: Cicero's Example, by Kate Wintrol
The Ivory Tower Revisited, by Abigail Chantler
Knowing Their Worth: Three Ways to Help Students Connect a Liberal Arts Degree to Career Paths, by Kristina Markos
Lessons from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education, by Ernest T. Pascarella & Charles Blaich
The Liberal Arts Bubble, by John Agresto
A Liberal Arts Education: Global Trends and Challenges, by Jerry Logan & Janel Curry
The ROOT and STEM of a Fruitful Business Education, by Frank Badua
Selling Students on the Character of Liberal Arts, by Ted Newell
Teaching for Ethical Reasoning in Liberal Education, by Robert J. Sternberg
Undergraduate Research and a Liberal Arts Education: Similar Goals, Similar Solutions, by Bonnie Nicole Kaiser, Dennis M. Mishler, Whitney A. Peoples, & Alexis S. Wells
The Viability of the English Major in the Current Economy, by Amanda Hiner
Why Americans love educational shortcuts: A conversation with Robert Hampel, by Rafael Heller

A Word From Other Universities on the Liberal Arts

Op-Ed on the Liberal Arts

Please note these are opinion pieces and are generally not considered scholarly academic sources.

Opinion Piece: Liberal arts education is more than a first semester elective, by Andrew Henderson
WKU Department of Communication News
A Rising Call to Promote STEM Education and Cut Liberal Arts Funding, by Patricia Cohen
The New York Times
A Top Medical School Revamps Requirements To Lure English Majors, by Julie Rovner
NPR
Value of a liberal arts education: Look at Da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Steve Jobs, by Marty Solomon
Lexington-Herald Leader
Why I Hire English Majors, by Steve Strauss
HuffPost
Why we need the liberal arts: It is essential to nurture creators and inventors if our society is to thrive
The Baltimore Sun - available only to subscribers

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How to Use This Guide

Academic Journal Articles from Library Databases

A Word From Other Universities on the Liberal Arts

Op-Ed on the Liberal Arts

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