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'The planned cuts include the school’s program of world languages and literatures, along with graduate programs in mathematics and other degrees across the arts and pre-professional programs. The university is deciding, in effect, that certain citizens don’t get access to a liberal arts education.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/opinion/west-virginia-university-cuts.html
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Spot on. I recently came across this thread from @inthehands ( courtesy repost from @kinozhao ) discussing how liberal arts education is an education for the unknowable future, and providing some history to the term. I find it pairs well with this article.
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/110390739226017146