Making the Case for Liberal Education (Concluding Plenary Session)

Join us this winter term for the continuation of our public colloquium series exploring the values, dimensions, and outcomes of liberal arts education, and how they might be measured. In virtual panel discussions and seminars focused on measuring the liberal arts, academic leaders, researchers, faculty members, and national experts will gather to consider issues long central to liberal arts education, as well as its status now and in the future.

A panel of academic leaders will consider how a focus on the lives students lead beyond college, on the outcomes of liberal arts education, can make the case for it. What outcomes are most pertinent, and most exciting? Which outcomes should be measured, and then marshalled? Panelists will also address what they most want to know about liberal education, and how the College and Beyond II project can help to explore those questions.

Visit the College and Beyond II: Liberal Arts and Life Colloquium Series website for more information on this and all upcoming events: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/liberalarts

Zoom – Registration Required:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_osP7agnvQq-7nMR7kJHBmw

Concluding Plenary Session Speakers:

Rebecca Blank, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Douglas Haynes, Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

Renu Khator, Chancellor, University of Houston System, and President, University of Houston

Costas Spirou, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Sociology and Public Administration, Georgia College & State University

Anne Curzan (moderator), Dean, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, and Education; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; University of Michigan