Expanding Cs1: Applications across the Liberal Arts*

Providing a Technology Edge for Liberal Arts Students

Students’ employability has long been a challenging issue for many liberal arts colleges and universities. There has been widespread recognition recently that liberal arts students are highly valued as employees. But there is also a public perception that liberal arts students may not be well equipped to face the challenges of employment in the information age. This study is a collaborative eff...

Applying the Grid Computing Paradigm within a Liberal Arts Academic Environment

Until very recently analyses and computations on a large scale were feasible only on supercomputers or clusters of high-end processors. Such computational infrastructure requires massive investments that can be unrealistic in a liberal arts college environment such as that found at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). However, TCNJ has several state-of-the-art campus computer labs for use by stude...

Liberal Arts and Medicine The Liberal Arts and Medicine: How the Liberal Arts Tradition Can Impact Health Care Reform

Beyond Computer Literacy: Designing and Assessing IT Fluency at a Liberal Arts College

We describe three courses developed for information technology fluency at a new liberal arts college, Georgia Gwinnett College, emphasizing the development and assessment of the first fundamental course. The requirement for an IT course sequence is a direct outcome of our institutional mission and vision. We share our experiences as an example of re-engineering IT fluency across degree programs...

Distinctively American : The Liberal Arts College 133

PATENTS ON THE TRADITIONAL MISSION of liberal arts education have expired. Generic versions of that mission are now regularly included in even the most specialized undergraduate curricula. In the marketplace, meanwhile, the undiluted liberal arts experience is battling the pressures of escalating costs, rising tuitions, and increasing demands for career training as a primary component of underg...