liberal arts
plural nounDefinition of liberal arts
1 : the medieval studies comprising the trivium and quadrivium
2 : college or university studies (such as language, philosophy, literature, abstract science) intended to provide chiefly general knowledge and to develop general intellectual capacities (such as reason and judgment) as opposed to professional or vocational skills
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Recent Examples on the Web Students pursuing the nursing bachelor's degree at Loyola will study core liberal arts courses with a pre-nursing focus for one year, and nursing science exclusively starting the second year, officials said.
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Della Hasselle | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, "Loyola University, Ochsner Health will team up on new nursing program to fill acute shortage," 21 Oct. 2020 Mills College, a private liberal arts school in Oakland, California, placed the text up for sale to help cover budget shortfalls, reported Sam Lefebvre for local news outlet KQED in December 2019.
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Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine, "Shakespeare’s First Folio Is the Most Expensive Work of Literature Ever Auctioned," 16 Oct. 2020 No more than two years focus on liberal arts curriculums, Associates degrees, and certificates.
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Anchorage Daily News, "Candidate Q&A: Alaska House District 16 — Paul Bauer," 3 Oct. 2020 Located about 96 miles northwest of Chicago, Beloit is a private liberal arts school with an enrollment of 1,212.
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NBC News, "Wisconsin's Beloit College let students take lead on keeping their campus safe from Covid-19," 23 Sep. 2020 The liberal arts school, founded decades before the Civil War battle that the town is forever identified with, had expanded student housing, consulted with public health experts and arranged for viral testing.
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Washington Post, "The fall opening of colleges: Upheaval, pandemic weirdness and a fragile stability," 20 Sep. 2020 In April 2015, Emile Weaver gave birth alone in the bathroom of her sorority house at a small liberal arts university in Ohio.
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Longreads, "The Top 5 Longreads of the Week," 10 Aug. 2020 Barrett attended an all-girls Catholic school in New Orleans before studying English and French at a liberal arts college in Memphis.
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Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, "President Trump selects Chicago federal appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Supreme Court, sources say," 25 Sep. 2020 Like most similarly sized institutions, the small, liberal arts college is especially susceptible to enrollment declines.
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Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Diane Hendricks, three others resign from Beloit College Board of Trustees," 24 Sep. 2020
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