Skidmore College: Why It Matters - page 12-13

HOW DOES SKIDMORE KEEP
THE LIBERAL ARTS RELEVANT?
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WE MUST PREPARE OUR STUDENTS NOT ONLY FOR TODAY’S
PROFESSIONAL WORLD BUT ALSO FOR TOMORROW’S, WHICH
WILL DEMAND EVEN HIGHER LEVELS OF INGENUITY AND
INNOVATION.
The problems they will confront are complex, multidimensional.
They won’t fit into neat categories, and they will be resolved only by forging creative con-
nections across different areas of knowledge.
Making our world a better place requires both richness of imagination and clarity of
thought. Our graduates will have to view complex and dynamic situations from multiple
perspectives, sort through enormous amounts of information, and collaborate to create
solutions no one has yet envisioned.
Empowering our graduates to infuse creativity into everything they do and then to im-
plement their ideas is the most crucial mission we serve. It’s the core of our belief that cre-
ative thought matters: learning how to bring creativity to life. Ideas are wonderful; ideas are
launching points. But unrealized ideas are just unfulfilled dreams. “Creative Thought Mat-
ters” means that thought leads to action.
That’s why we are expanding internship opportunities that allow students to apply
what they learn in the classroom to real-world issues. It’s why we are supporting more fac-
ulty-student research projects, from developing drug therapies for type-2 diabetes to creat-
ing new equipment and protocols that protect firefighters from sudden cardiac arrest. It’s
why we send our students to more than one hundred programs in Africa, Asia, Europe,
the Middle East … all over the world.
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