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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP: They're now R1 and and have 7k undergrads and apparently a *massive* stem presence (they wouldn't be highlighting this if "liberal arts vibe" screamed "we have good stem departments here" to the general public which yeah people still like to claim that W&M is not the place to go if you're planning to study stem). I just don't see that being "LAC-like".[/quote]

Many people appear unaware that Liberal Arts includes the sciences, mathematics and statistics, and components of technology.  [/quote]

Definitions vary depending on where one looks.  What does seem to be true is that many here think (whether correctly or not) that Liberal Arts has an identical meaning to arts & humanities.
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Correctly or not? Incorrect. Liberal Arts has always included the sciences. Any definition that equates the liberal arts to the humanities is plainly wrong.

A liberal arts education contrasts not with the study of science but with a professional or technical approach that focuses exclusively on what you need for a specific job.

To oversimplify: a liberal arts education is broad and necessarily varied across disciplines, while a professional education is deep and narrow in one discipline. The goal of a liberal arts education is intellectual agility whole the goal of a professional/technical education is mastery of a field.[/quote]

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