Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about higher ed issues, leadership, finance, and innovation. Colleges and universities, like so many institutions in our ...

This synergistic atmosphere continues to influence the way I think and sync.” A Humanities student and eventually a theatre ...

The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It by John Agresto (2022, Encounter Books), 256 pages. Since Allan Bloom's bestselling classic Closing of the ...

Over 25 years ago, I entered college and began a life in liberal education. Before college, my high-school identity in a small town had centered on playing football and chasing girls. When I graduated ...

Among the many crises we face in the United States, the chief one is that we don’t know how to be free. Far too many students (and adults) think of liberty not as a condition requiring virtue and ...

A metaphor that has captured the imagination at my College is that of a “base camp to the world”. I’ve been thinking about this base camp metaphor as it could apply to learning innovation. What role ...

The question is not if a liberal arts education is the best education. It is. Evidence will continue to accrue. The latest data point we can cite is the article Making the Case for Liberal Arts ...

At this time of year, thousands of academically accomplished students enter selective higher education institutions like mine, beginning their arduous journey toward bachelor’s degrees and beyond.

Experiential learning is the process through which students translate the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom into real world professional work experiences. Students will gain skills such as ...

Answering the perennial question of what university education should be requires a return to first principles. Speak to many Duke students and you get the idea that the university is failing to shore ...

The commentary by Peter Berkowitz (“What’s the Point of a Liberal Education? Don’t Ask the Ivy League,” Sept. 16) is disappointing in its reliance on a misinformed caricature of Ivy League and other ...