Grinnell's president on the importance of liberal arts colleges

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<p>mini –
Do you have a source for that 3% number? I wonder how they define “liberal arts college”?</p>

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<p>As to the liberal arts general ed./liberal arts distributional requirements. ALL AACSBB accredited business schools MUST require the following:</p>

<p>C.1.2 Undergraduate</p>

<p>C.1.2.a: Each undergraduate curriculum should have a general education component that normally comprises at least 50 percent of the student’s four-year program. </p>

<p>As I said, there are NO liberal arts colleges in the country (outside of St. John’s) that have stiffer distributional requirements than ALL accredited business schools.</p>

<p>The author doesn’t know what he is talking about, and is wedded to his prejudices. (Full disclosure: I went to #1 LAC. My older d. went to a prestigious LAC where the distributional requirements are MUCH less than those required of my younger d. at her undergraduate business school.)</p>

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<p>Depends. I would expect that employers looking for engineering graduates would be willing to hire a graduate of Harvey Mudd College’s ABET-accredited engineering program.</p>

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<p>Dartmouth’s president in the 90’s wrote a book on the value of the liberal arts education. However, I don’t think it emphasized social change.</p>

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<p>“I would not expect a LAC grad to be hired for an engineering job”</p>

<p>Smith has an EXCELLENT, well-funded engineering program (ABET accredited) embedded inside a liberal arts education.</p>