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large part by the Association of American Colleges and Universities ( 2020 ). They label it “liberal education” because it seeks to give people freedom. Freedom takes many forms, including the ability to freely express, explore, and move ( Kretchmar, 1988 ). Physical Activity Education as General

challenge for academic units is to become more explicit about the professional skills and abilities that undergraduate degrees represent and to develop highly effective teaching and learning methods ( Liberal Education & America’s Promise, 2007 ). To ensure that all students, regardless of academic degree

education for postsecondary students encompasses, the AAC&U ( 2007 ) launched another initiative, the Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility, to define PSR in postsecondary settings. The Core Commitments initiative was developed in cooperation with the Liberal Education

conferences routinely crossed the boundary between dialogue (for mutual understanding) and debate (I win, you lose). In contrast to my liberal education experiences at Oberlin and the ones I strived to offer my students, colleagues appeared to be intolerant of constructive critiques. Decades later, I began to

from, benefited from, and built on Henry’s leadership by continuing to insist on physical education as a worthy focus of study. His was a concept, she said, that underscored the same desire for a liberal education in physical education that had been expressed by the early founders of the field more

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