/news/2025/09/19/the-importance-of-the-liberal-arts-president-garry-w-jenkins-in-conversation-with-the-maine-trust-for-local-news/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:58:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 /news/2025/09/19/the-importance-of-the-liberal-arts-president-garry-w-jenkins-in-conversation-with-the-maine-trust-for-local-news/#comment-266828 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:55:17 +0000 /news/?p=170522#comment-266828 Future American leaders can’t create The Good Society if they don’t know what it is. The Good Society is grounded on the foundational virtues of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. Core courses in Liberal Education incorporate The Arts, which clarify Beauty, Humanities, which clarify Goodness, and Sciences, which clarify Truth. The democratic mission of Little Ivy League Colleges is, therefore, to maximize the number of alumni who earn graduate degrees at Ivy League or other influential universities.

]]> /news/2025/09/19/the-importance-of-the-liberal-arts-president-garry-w-jenkins-in-conversation-with-the-maine-trust-for-local-news/#comment-266794 Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:02:40 +0000 /news/?p=170522#comment-266794 President Jenkins’s comments are thematically promising. So, when will ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ take a look at the “Core Course” curriculum to ensure its students receive a solid grounding in the basics of a liberal arts education, i.e., breadth and depth in the humanities and hard sciences?

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