A radical proposal to improve instruction in the small college professional programs

The author proposes a separation between professional training centers and liberal arts institutes at small colleges. The professional institute could contract with the liberal arts unit to supply courses in philosophy, history, writing skills, and whatever other nontechnical subjects the institute deemed to be a part of a complete professional education. The novelty would be that the institute would decide just how much of the nontechnical knowledge and skills it wished to include in the training of a student whose goal was a productive job in industry. This proposal is directed toward bringing about close-knit cooperation between industry and the colleges.<>