Ron Bramhall's Profile

Others have already said this but I will affirm that the article presents a false choice and a false argument. The premise, "a cutthroat job market that favors specific skills" just isn't true. Look at any study on what employers value and they will tell you, without using the term "liberally educated", that they want students who are liberally educated. So the set up is wrong but the solutions make sense. We all have to make the case better and to do that we have to look inward. On my campus, there is resistance to discussing the Liberal Arts in instrumental terms - the liberal arts must be viewed as valuable not for the ends they produce but because they are valuable in and of themselves. I agree with this perspective, but it's a hard sell to make externally.