The Chronicle of Higher Education: Business Curricula Need a Strong Dose of the Liberal Arts, Scholars Say

Undergraduate business programs should be more deeply infused with the virtues of a traditional liberal-arts education, two scholars said here on Thursday at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

“Business programs are often quite effective, but also terribly narrow,” said William M. Sullivan, a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, during a panel discussion. Narrow pre-professional programs, he said, do not give students the depth they need to be morally engaged citizens and intellectually agile workers.  Read more…

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