<p>Why is Brown university sometimes considered a liberal arts school?</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, etc, etc all are/have a liberal arts school. It simply means it isn't "specialized" in some specific area...kinda like Wharton at Penn (even though that has some liberal arts aspects to it, too).</p>
<p>it's not just a matter of being "specialized". liberal arts schools are distinguished from "professional" schools that teach a particular trade (engineering, nursing, hotel management and business are examples of professional schools at other places)</p>
<p>talk to modest about the university college model</p>
<p>Actually, the Task Force is about to come out with a final draft in September and it mentions my favorite article about Brown, the one that begins using the idea of the "University-College".</p>
<p>Henry T. Fowler's, "What College For A Boy?"</p>
<p>I don't think it's all that easy to find that article, but it's fantastic. In the mean time, I suggest holding off until the Task Force report is announced in Sept, there's a pretty good description of liberal learning at Brown in there.</p>
<p>I hope that the newly revised Guidelines for Liberal Learning are posted online as well, though that may be a closed community document.</p>