Professional education is enhanced by requiring a strong liberal arts base. The environment that would deliver such an education should be governed by the principles that it teaches. It should be collegial, fair, and open to free discussion where mutual respect is practiced and disagreement about issues takes place without respect for the individual being lost. The environment should practice and teach the values found in a multi-cultural world. We should have women and racial minorities prominent in all aspects of university life.
Liberal education ensures sensitivity to and fair treatment for all people.
The education environment should provide learning communities for each student. Within a week, no more than two, each freshman should feel like he or she belongs to a learning community. Each freshman should be known by a faculty member by name and have an upper class student identified as a mentor. This learning community can be built around a student's curricular interest, around a living environment, or some other centralizing theme that will enhance the possibility that the student will spend large segments of time discussing, debating, and practicing outside of the classroom what he or she has learned in the classroom. The environment must foster a high level of student-faculty involvement, collaborative learning, active learning, high expectations, and time on task.