Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
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I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
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They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
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The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
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What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
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I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
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When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
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My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
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The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
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By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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