Finding a Balance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Lindsay Levine ◽  
Emily Kohut
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts Colleges ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Curricular Models ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Music Faculty

Liberal arts colleges focus on undergraduate education, emphasizing the development of critical thought, the whole person, and values consistent with ethical participation in a civil society. Liberal arts music faculty now recognize the need to remap the music major and transform how music is taught and learned in order to remain relevant in the current economic and cultural climate, but the process is challenging. This chapter explores how liberal arts music faculty are striving to meet the challenge, using data from the Internet, a survey questionnaire, and interviews to compare the music major at thirteen colleges. We conclude that finding a balance between the conservatory-style curriculum and new curricular models does not imply replacing the Western concert tradition. Rather, it involves responding proactively to broader changes in musical life and recognizing the role of music in liberal education.

Why College Students Drift Left: The Stability of Political Identity and Relative Malleability of Issue Positions among College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-664
Author(s):  
Matthew Woessner ◽  
April Kelly-Woessner
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts Colleges ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Regression To The Mean ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Using Data

ABSTRACTIn considering the liberalizing effect of college on students’ political values, we argue that political identities—in the form of self-identified ideology or partisanship—are components of social identity and are resistant to change. Using data from the Higher Education Research Institute’s student surveys, we show that what movement in identity does occur is mostly a regression to the mean effect. On several issue positions, however, students move in a more uniform leftward direction. We find that liberal drift on issues is most common among students majoring in the arts and humanities. Self-reported ideology does drift left at liberal arts colleges, but this is explained by a peer effect: students at liberal arts colleges drift more to the left because they have more liberal peers. The results have implications for future research on college student political development, suggesting that attitudinal change can be more easily identified by examining shifts in policy preferences rather than changes in political identity.

A Computer Module for Teaching Methodology

1983 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Leon Halpert
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts Colleges ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Computer Usage ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Computer Centers ◽  
The Impact

A recent newspaper article discussing future trends in higher education noted that by 1990 college graduates were likely to have had some “hands-on” experience with computers regardless of their chosen course of study, including the humanities. Nowhere is the impact of the technotronic society more visible than on the college campus today. Computer centers can now be found even at small, traditional liberal arts colleges. Computer manuals are becoming the equivalent of collegiate dictionaries.As it becomes increasingly apparent, even to the anti-technotronic segment of the academic community, that the development and expansion of computer usage is unlikely to wane, the dialogue about the role of the computer on campus is shifting.

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