The Lyceum Scholars Program Is Changing Higher Education at Clemson

American higher education is increasingly defined by an aimless mishmash of courses on trivial topics that present no clear view of what a human being must know in order to be considered liberally educated. The result: the liberal arts have been gutted and repackaged to serve various ideological and political interests. With the exception of a few "Great Books" colleges, the overarching vision of higher education that once sustained the West for centuries seems all but dead.