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expositions-2359	none	The Public Value of Higher Education	2018	11	.pdf	application/pdf	3315	246	50	Some critics of higher education have followed the concerns laid out in the 2006 Spellings Commission’s Report, A Test of Leadership, that finds the American workforce is increasingly ill- prepared for a globalized “knowledge economy” because of the marginalization of undergraduate learning in American colleges and universities.1 Works like Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses and We’re Losing Our Minds: Rethinking American Higher Education confirm these fears that American higher education is not providing the requisite skills for a twenty-first-century workforce.2 According to these critics, the crisis of American higher education is its inability to deliver an education for the United States to remain competitive in a globalized economy. Books like Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, Why Choose the Liberal Arts, and Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given up on the Meaning of Life defend the need of liberal education in an academic environment that is increasingly being defined by economic utility.3 Although these authors differ in their reasons as to why liberal education is essential to American higher education, they all agree that liberal education, particularly the humanities, should return to the center of colleges’ and universities’ curriculum—a similar argument that was made more than thirty years ago in Allan Bloom’s Closing the American Mind.4	cache/expositions-2359.pdf	txt/expositions-2359.txt