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Better than an MBA: business benefits from classic curriculum.(Special Report: Higher Education)
Crain's Chicago Business, March, 1997 by Murphy, H. Lee
Liberal arts was death to the MBA-happy post-grads of the 1980s, but a rising number of business people are embracing it in the '90s. Larry Milner, a Northbrook physician, earned his medical degree in 1966 from the University of Illinois and a law degree from DePaul University in 1987. Now, at 55, he's back in school, indulging a new interest: writing.
Dr. Milner is one of a small but dedicated band of post-graduate students at several area colleges pursuing a little-noticed program of study leading to a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS). Unique for its intellectual breadth, an MALS is a liberal arts degree that combines courses from such disciplines as cultural history, religious ethics and comparative literature; the program could stretch three years or...
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