{"id":99358,"date":"2026-10-14T16:15:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99358"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:20:34","slug":"the-reinvention-of-liberal-arts-colleges-marcus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/10\/14\/the-reinvention-of-liberal-arts-colleges-marcus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reinvention of Liberal Arts Colleges [Marcus]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Reinvention of Liberal Arts Colleges<\/strong><\/a> — from educationnext.org by Jon Marcus; via Ryan Craig
\nTo remain relevant amid evolving attitudes toward higher education, Brandeis University and institutions like it are redefining their purpose<\/em><\/p>\n

By the fall, the university will have reorganized itself into four new schools<\/a> that bring together existing professional programs in areas such as business, technology, and public policy with liberal arts disciplines including history, biology, philosophy, and sociology. Before the first semester starts, each arriving student will be assigned not only an academic adviser, but also a career counselor. And in what has become the most prominent symbol of the strategy, graduates will leave with \u201ccareer-competency\u201d transcripts alongside their conventional ones, listing what skills they have learned that employers value, from communicating and writing to proficiency with AI. This second transcript also will include internships and jobs students have held as well as microcredentials<\/a>, which the university now gives them a chance to earn, at no additional cost, in digital-knowledge-economy subjects such as data analytics and statistical analysis.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s record the durable skills. Let\u2019s record the life skills. Let\u2019s record the career skills.\u201d That way, employers will understand exactly what students have been taught to do\u2014as will students themselves.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe liberal arts are in a quiet crisis of their own. The number of bachelor\u2019s degrees awarded in the liberal arts\u2014generally defined as a broad education offering majors in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and math\u2014fell to a 30-year low<\/a> in 2024, the latest period for which data are available, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. That was 30 percent below the peak in 2012. Students have instead been choosing<\/a> majors in subjects they consider tied directly to careers, including business, management, and health professions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Reinvention of Liberal Arts Colleges — from educationnext.org by Jon Marcus; via Ryan Craig To remain relevant amid evolving attitudes toward higher education, Brandeis University and institutions like it are redefining their purpose By the fall, the university will have reorganized itself into four new schools that bring together existing professional programs in areas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[867,387,61,174,86,209,127,115,389,112,57,823,868,7,79,239,560,436,310,66,212,206,321,214,11,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apprenticeships","category-business","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-competency-based-learning-education","category-corporate-business-world","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-credentialing","category-internships","category-learning-ecosystem","category-liberal-arts","category-new-business-models","category-parents-guardians","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-trends","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vision-possibilities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99360,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99358\/revisions\/99360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}