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Saving the Liberal Arts - David Perell

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David's essay explores why the liberal arts are valuable how to save them from obscurity. Read here.

Co-written with Jeremy Giffon “If colleges don’t change their business model, they’re going to go bankrupt,” I told my professor, two days before I graduated from college. She looked at me in disbelief. “Yeah right,” she snickered. Over four years at Elon University, I had watched the institution abandon its cardinal principles, as it transitioned from a liberal arts college and into a professional training center. Founded in 1889 to “transform mind, body, and spirit and encourage freedom of thought and liberty of conscience,” the school was built upon noble aspirations that united the communi

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