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Adams State University

Adams State University is a small state-supported liberal arts university in Alamosa, Colorado, U.S., in the San Luis Valley and home to the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.

Charuchandra College

Charuchandra College its an intermediate and undergraduate liberal arts college in Kolkata, India.

ECOLAS

The mission of ECOLAS is to work within the sphere of European undergraduate education to foster and disseminate good practices essential to nurturing the ideals and skills necessary for lifelong learning and good citizenship that are embedded in the educational tradition of the liberal arts and sciences.

Fakir Chand College

Fakir Chand College its mainly an undergraduate liberal arts college near Kolkata, India.

Friends University

A college of liberal arts and a preparatory department offered classes in Literature, History, Mathematics, Astronomy, Bible, German, Elocution, and oratory.

Geoffrey of Vinsauf

Gallo explains that "both of these liberal arts taught composition and taught the student to examine the diction, figurative language, and meters of the curriculum authors who were to serve as models for imitation. However it was rhetoric and not grammar that was concerned with Invention of subject matter and with disposition or organization of the work" as well as memory and delivery (72).

Herman Slater

An educated man, Slater studied business administration at New York University, liberal arts at Hunter College and traffic management at the Traffic Management Institute in New York.

Lamka

Affiliated to Manipur University, all the local colleges offer several Three Year Degree (TDC) courses in science and liberal arts.

Netaji Nagar Day College

Netaji Nagar Day College is an undergraduate liberal arts college in Kolkata, India.

Oklahoma State University College of Arts and Sciences

The Oklahoma State University College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) serves as the liberal arts and science components of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Sangamesh Saundattimath

He has served as a professor of Kannada at Karnatak University Dharwad, Gulbarga University for over 33 years and after retirement, he was selected as Emeritus Professor by U.G.C. He was holding number of Administrative Positions at the time of his service such as Dean Faculty of Arts, Chairman - Institute of Kannada studies (Gulbarga University), Student welfare Officer (Gulbarga University), Special Officer (P.G.Centre, Raichur) etc.

South Calcutta Girls' College

South Calcutta Girls College is an undergraduate women's liberal arts college in Kolkata, India.

St. Stephen's International School

Founded in 1964 by Dr. John O. Patterson, former Headmaster of the Kent School, St. Stephen's provides a demanding classical liberal arts education taking full advantage of its location in the historic center of Rome.

Technological University of Pereira

The university offers studies in Engineering (Industrial engineering, Systems engineering and Computer science, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering); Science and Technology (Veterinary medicine, Medicine, Chemical technology, Industrial chemistry, Environmental management); Liberal arts (English, Spanish language and Literature, philosophy, Communication and Computer Education); Child pedagogy; and Sports science and recreation.

Torso Fragment

The other two works are a commissioned fictional bust of the patron saint of nurses, St. Camillus de Lellis installed in the School of Nursing and another bust, of Dr. Joseph T. Taylor, the first dean of the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI.

University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences

The University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences, also known as the College of A&S (or simply CAS), is the liberal arts and sciences unit of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.


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Albright

Albright College, a liberal arts college located in Reading, Pennsylvania

Alexei Kudrin

Currently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences in St. Petersburg State University.

Alice Lloyd

Alice Lloyd College, a liberal arts college in Pippa Passes, Kentucky, a small Appalachian community

Allison Machado

Machado graduated from Phoenix High School in 2000 and went on to complete a degree in liberal arts from Lane Community College and Rogue Community College.

Asbury College

DePauw University, a liberal arts college in Greencastle, Indiana, formerly known as Indiana Asbury College or just Asbury College

Asbury University, a liberal arts school in Wilmore, Kentucky, formerly known as Asbury College

Association of Reformed Institutions of Higher Education

Providence Christian College (Ontario, CA) is an independent confessionally Presbyterian and Reformed liberal arts college in southern California, founded in 2005.

Barber–Scotia College

During her tenure President Gloria Bromell Tinubu led a strategic planning effort to change the college from a four-year liberal arts program to a college of entrepreneurship and business, and established partnerships with accredited colleges and top-tiered universities.

Butler College

: For the Durham University college, see Josephine Butler College; for the private liberal arts school in Indianapolis, see Butler University; For the El Dorado, Kansas college, see Butler Community College.

Buug, Zamboanga Sibugay

One is the government-owned, Mindanao State University - Buug Campus which offers courses in education, liberal arts, agriculture, and aquaculture.

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

A professor at Goddard College, a private, liberal arts college in Plainfield, Vermont, she serves as the coordinator for the Transformative Language Arts track, which she initiated.

CCAS

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the liberal arts and sciences college of The George Washington University

Charles L. Shearer

He also served as director of operations and as the first director of the liberal arts program in management at Albion College in Albion, Michigan.

David Crouse

Having helped to establish a creative writing program at Chester College of New England, a renowned liberal arts college located in Chester, New Hampshire, Crouse returned to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which awarded him his MFA in Creative Writing in 1996.

DBU

Dallas Baptist University a Christian liberal arts university located in Dallas, Texas

Don Feder

Feder is a 1969 graduate of the Boston University College of Liberal Arts and a 1972 graduate of the Boston University School of Law.

Due West, South Carolina

Due West is the home of Erskine College, a private Christian liberal arts college affiliated with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and Dixie High School, serving grades 8-12.

Eckerd

Eckerd College, private liberal arts college in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States

ENC

The Eastern Nazarene College, a college of the liberal arts and sciences located in Quincy, Massachusetts

Furman University

In the South during recent years, Furman University graduates have earned more Ph.D. degrees than those from any other southern private liberal arts college, according to a survey conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center.

Grantham, Pennsylvania

Grantham is an unincorporated community in Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, best known today for the Christian liberal arts college, Messiah College, whose students make up most of its population.

Guttman Community College

Guttman offers 2-year associate degree programs with majors in Business Administration, Human Services, Information Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Urban Studies.

Jaipur School

Students have gone on to join Harvard University, University of Chicago, Cardiff University, Indian Institutes of Technology, National Defence Academy (India), and other engineering, medical, defence, liberal arts and business management programs.

Jesse H. Jones

The University of Texas at Austin's College of Communication is named after Jones, where there is also the Jesse H. Jones Chair in the Liberal Arts, held by the renowned philosopher T. K. Seung.

KEMU

Kenya Methodist University, a liberal arts university located in Meru, Kenya

Lee Sang-hee

General Lee graduated from the Republic of Korea Military Academy in 1970 and the College of Liberal Arts & Science, Seoul National University in 1974.

Maledictology

It is influenced by US-American psychologist Timothy Jay (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts) and the philologist and researcher in swearwords Reinhold Aman (California).

Martianus Capella

Among the wedding gifts are seven maids who will be Philology's servants: they are the seven liberal arts: Grammar (an old woman with a knife for excising children's grammatical errors), Dialectic, Rhetoric (a tall woman with a dress decorated with figures of speech and armed in a fashion to harm adversaries), Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy and (musical) Harmony.

Maulana Azad College

Maulana Azad College is an government administered liberal arts college, located in central Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education

On December 19 of 1890, the first Governor of Oklahoma Territory George Washington Steele signed the bill that created the Oklahoma Territorial University at Norman (now the University of Oklahoma), the institution designated to provide the liberal arts and professional education, as the first university in Oklahoma.

Park Point

Point Park University, a liberal arts university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Paul Schenck

Besides his studies at Elim Bible Institute, Paul graduated from Luther Rice University (with a B.A. biblical studies), was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire, (and in Rome) was granted the Graduate Catechetical Diploma by The Most Rev. Paul Laverde, the Bishop of Arlington, Virginia.

Pomona University

Pomona College, a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California (originally founded in Pomona) and part of the Claremont Colleges consortium

Purdue University College of Liberal Arts

The Purdue University College of Liberal Arts is one of eight colleges (major academic divisions) of Purdue University.

Rhodes Colleges

Rhodes College, a private, four-year liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Richard Dorman

Richard Dorman is the 14th President of Westminster College, a liberal arts college in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania,.

Richard G. Jewell

Richard G. Jewell is the eighth president of Grove City College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania.

Rick Levin

Levin spearheaded the creation of the first liberal arts college in Asia, Yale-NUS, a joint venture between Yale University and the National University of Singapore.

SACI

SACI Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy, was founded by artist and director emeritus Jules Maidoff in Tuscany in 1975 and incorporated in 1976 as a U.S. non-profit 501 c (3) educational institution for undergraduate and graduate university-level students seeking fully accredited studio art, design, and liberal arts instruction.

Schahan Berberian

The first job of the fifteen-year-old young man was to teach literature and natural sciences at his alma mater but in 1908, he left for Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, taking classes in philosophy and metaphysics with Henri Bergson, psychology with Georges Dumas and sociology with Émile Durkheim, thus receiving a thorough education in the liberal arts and obtaining a diploma to teach philosophy.

Shorter College

Shorter University, a liberal arts college in Rome, Georgia formerly known as Shorter College

Sweet briar

Sweet Briar College, a liberal arts women's college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, United States

Timothy Luke

Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences as well as Program Chair of the Government and International Affairs Program, School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.

University of Grenoble

The university was founded in 1339 by Dauphin Humbert II of Viennois and Pope Benedict XII to teach civil and canon law, medicine, and the liberal arts.

University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

George MacLean, president of the University of Iowa from 1899–1911 and whom a building on the Pentacrest is named for, reorganized the academic structure of the University, transforming the Collegiate Department into the College of Liberal Arts, one of the seven colleges established in 1900-01, along with the Graduate College and five professional colleges.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) is the largest of the eleven colleges at The University of Iowa, founded in 1900.

William Albrecht

After attending the local school he progressed via preparatory school to the University of Illinois where he obtained a B.A. degree in liberal arts.This led to a position teaching Latin and other subjects at Bluffton University, Ohio.

Wisconsin International University in Ukraine

Wisconsin International University (USA) Ukraine (WIUU) is a liberal arts institute located in the centre of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

Yadanabon University

Located in the outskirts of Mandalay in Amarapura by Taungthaman Lake, the university offers bachelor's and master's degree programs in liberal arts and sciences, mostly to students from Mandalay suburbs and vicinity.