A liberal education prepares students for life as well as for careers. It opens minds by introducing students to the sweep of human imagination as well as the disappointments of human behavior.
Liberal education offers students a sense of the human imprint for both good and evil.
It provides students with the analytic skills necessary for critical interpretation and for effective problem solving. In every historical epoch, liberal education is about freeing the human imagination to understand the past while visualizing a future beyond the present limits of human possibilities. In this broad view, liberal education is both pragmatic and idealistic. To reach its mission, liberal education requires of its students a particular approach that includes both the acquisition of knowledge and the habit of critical thinking. This approach necessarily involves students and faculty in continual engagement with the world around them.