“The Things that Machines Cannot Do”: Reframing Undergraduate Education for the 21st Century James Carson, professor of history at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, says learning how to think critically is one of the most important skills a…
Liberal Education Under Illiberal Regimes: Student Experiences from Afghanistan, Hungary, Myanmar, and the US In Afghanistan and Myanmar, authoritarian regimes have created highly repressive environments that threaten liberal education, leading some universities to operate primarily in exile. In…
An Opportunity for Growth: Embracing a Pedagogy of Failure Three panelists from Allegheny College recently joined the Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative (LAS Collab) to share lessons learned from their influential 2023 article on “Teaching the Inevitable: Embracing…
Navigating the Digital Future: Allison Stanger on Education and the Digital Humanism Initiative Allison Stanger, political scientist and Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, Vermont, in the US, recently facilitated a Liberal Arts and Sciences…
Five students from Parami University, an OSUN member institution, spoke to BBC News about their struggles in continuing higher education during the 2021 military coup in Myanmar (formerly Burma) and its aftermath. From dealing with losing electricity to writing…
Thursday, February 1, 20248:00 am – 9:30 am EST/GMT-5 Online Event8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna The LAS Collaborative invites the OSUN community to an event with James Taylor Carson, speaking about his 2022 article “Rethinking a…
The title of this article suggests there is something specific about liberal education, in contrast to purely professional or vocational education, that geopolitical situations are sensitive to, and vice versa. The reality is that practitioners of liberal arts…
OSUN’s Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative recently hosted a panel discussion to mark the launch of its framework on the operation of liberal arts and sciences education as a system. Panelists were asked to respond to the framework, which employs three…
OSUN’s Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative recently sponsored an event with Doug Haynes of the University of Sussex, exploring the ways in which interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarityy, and even postdisciplinarity might manifest in liberal arts and sciences (LAS) education. His talk followed the publication…
Teachers in ancient India and China were the first to educate young people to become “well-rounded, responsible” individuals, much like contemporary liberal arts and sciences educators do today, writes Kyaw Moe Tun in a recent issue of Times Higher Education. Kyaw…