For example, I think there is a level of understanding of science that every citizen of the 21st century should have because it affects their lives so intimately. It shouldn't be hocus pocus and it shouldn't be magic. A liberal arts education is the foundation for any profession, she says. They have to know why they need to support education. We are preparing folks for the next century.
Liberal education is the way to do that.
What we deliver best are graduates who are literate and have analytical and synthetic abilities. Even though Maxson won't be teaching or researching as much as in the past, she intends to be a public figure and a spokesperson for higher education. Already the author of a textbook for non-science majors, she wants to write another based on her teaching experience. As for those frogs, you'll find her office rich with every kindall inanimate, of course. There are frog paper weights, frog pictures, stuffed frogs, cartoon frogs, and freeze-dried frogs.