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Liberal arts helps prepare tomorrow’s workforce

  May 14, 2012

Patricia Maguire Meservey, president of Salem State University, writes: We need a workforce able to draw on the benefits of a comprehensive outlook if we are to meet the future challenges of work. We will also still need engineers and scientists. Together, they and our liberal arts graduates will move a competitive America forward.

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