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Article: Liberal Education and America's Promise.(PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE)
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- Liberal Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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With this year's annual meeting, AAC & U has begun a decade-long public advocacy and campus action initiative to champion the value of liberal education--for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality. Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) is intended to build new public understanding of the aims of a contemporary liberal education and new capacity within the academy to help all students achieve these aims.
We have launched this initiative because we believe the academy stands at a crossroads. With millions of students not only seeking a college education but actually enrolling, the United States has an ...