“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” –Albert Einstein While it may seem a straight line from freshmen courses to the completion of one’s senior year and [Read more...]
Today more than ever, it is vital for public liberal arts colleges to demonstrate the value added of the liberal arts experience with meaningful data. That’s why the 2017 COPLAC Annual Meeting theme [Read more...]
The Southeast Regional Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Conference was hosted by UVA-Wise April 21-22. Six COPLAC campuses were represented at the conference, five in person [Read more...]
Dedicated to the principle of democratic access to a liberal arts college experience, COPLAC colleges and universities provide a student-centered undergraduate experience comparable in quality to [Read more...]
Cynthia P. Tidwell of University of Montevallo is the recipient of the 2017 COPLAC Charles Dunn Award. This award recognizes a faculty member whose commitment to student success goes "above and [Read more...]
My passion lies partway in between the art of International Politics and the art of pretending.
Cole Woodcox has been selected as the next director of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC), a consortium of 30 North American universities with its headquarters at UNC Asheville. He [Read more...]
Contemporary America seems more divided than ever before—how do we move forward as a society plagued by these divisions?
What makes a public liberal arts college truly distinct?
When Illinois residents think about the Springfield campus of the University of Illinois, the University's longstanding reputation for preparing public servants for leadership
“A liberal arts education is not just about understanding the concepts, it’s a full circle approach – an understanding of application.
As the higher education landscape evolves, both students and faculty seek learning experiences that go beyond the traditional classroom.
Last week, two COPLAC campuses were recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education as 2016 “Great Colleges to Work For.”
COPLAC’s 28th Annual Meeting was held June 28-30 on Experiential and Project-Based Learning.
On June 29, Johnson State College was accepted as the 30th member
“These days, students need some skills in digital technology, but we’re also combining the liberal arts way of teaching and thinking --
“It’s okay to be motivated by your own field, but to get excited about others because of their passion is incredible,”
University of Wisconsin Superior associate professor's contributions to research on the affects of microplastic pollutants helped pass state legislation and a federal ban on the use of microbeads.
Up until the summer of my sophomore year at college, the idea that there were people in the world who looked down on the liberal arts degree seemed outlandish to me,
Scholars from 900 colleges and universities across the country participated in the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at the University of North Carolina Asheville this past [Read more...]
