This week, the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), a global membership organization centered on undergraduate liberal education, kicked off its annual meeting with a focus on educating for democracy.
WASHINGTON In 1985, two days shy of his 12th birthday, Roosevelt Montás came from the Dominican Republic to New York. He had, he writes, "a head full of lice, and a belly full of tropical parasites." And a mind that was kindling, needing a spark to set it aflame.
A liberal arts education is about more than preparing students with skills in demand in the marketplace. Author Roosevelt Montás explains how studying "the classics" can change lives and matter more than ever.