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A year-long conversation about the liberal arts, higher education, and Wofford College.

During the 2012-13 academic year, Wofford will join the current national conversation about the crucial role of the liberal arts in American higher education. The College will host variety of public lectures, symposia, conversation circles, and other in-person and “virtual” initiatives that will explore a series of overlapping questions: What are the liberal arts? What is their place in American higher education? Why do they shape our institution? What is their future? Read more...

Featured Speakers

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Recipient of the prestigious Brock International Prize in Education, Dr. Tatum is the ninth President of Spelman College.

Eboo Patel

Member of President Obama's inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships, Dr. Patel is the founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core.

Andrew Delbanco

Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Andrew Delbanco is Director of American Studies and Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.