And pop-music fans who never heard of Katherine Hudson now adore Katy Perry. Maybe it's time for one of education's bedrock concepts -- the study of the liberal arts -- to consider a name change, too. No matter that some of America's best-known private colleges have rich traditions, going back 150 years or more, of teaching the humanities, social sciences and some natural sciences under the "liberal arts" banner. In a memorably provocative essay last month, Busteed argued that "liberal is politically charged, and arts has a negative connotation regarding improving graduates' job prospects." Rising to the challenge, Busteed proposed that today's liberal-arts programs recast themselves as champions of the Universal Degree.

Source: Forbes September 24, 2017 00:00 UTC