The rest of the university is assumed to be involved in other matters. In his earliest thinking about a federal role in building access to education, Justin Morrill included liberal education. I would argue, however, that the land-grant mission is better characterized as a state of mind than by a set of particular academic fields and that this state of mind is applicable to all the academic programs of the university . The basic concept that underlies the land-grant mission is that knowledge has consequences and utility, both for individuals and for society. It is the mission of the university, now, and in the future, to serve society by providing access to advanced knowledge to everyone who desires it and can benefit from the experience.
Liberal education has a fundamental role to play in the university of the future.
He also suggests that all of us need to have at least some familiarity with all three world views, which he calls the Technical, the Organizational and the Personal. Academics have argued that liberal learning is a way of preparing students to be better communicators, better thinkers, and more ethical and civic-minded members of the community. This same assumption shaped the curriculum of the early land grants, as it does today. Another aspect of the liberal arts that we often fail to discuss in the same depth, however, is the value of the different arts and sciences domains in introducing multiple perspectives or world views. It is here that the arts and sciences especially enhance and extend the philosophy and purposes of the curriculum for all students and the intellectual environment for all faculty.