In the coming months, the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents is expected to consider a proposal to remove the word “liberal” from a description of the university’s academic freedom principles. Your take?

Jane Hummer:Utterly ridiculous. “Liberal” is just an adjective which has a broad meaning and is used in many contexts. One might say we use the word liberally. In the context of education, “liberal” simply means a well-rounded education that prepares you for life in a rapidly changing world, rather than teaching only the skills needed for a single job, which may be taken over by robots in the next five years. In a liberal education, you learn something about everything and everything about something. You learn to connect ideas from disparate fields of study and to be comfortable engaging in study and conversation on a wide variety of topics.

As an English major who unexpectedly found herself in a consulting career amongst engineers and econometricians, I know firsthand that you can’t always predict where life will take you, but my liberal arts education prepared me well for this life. It also prepared me to understand that words can have more than one meaning.

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