Center for Liberty Studies

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What is Liberty Studies?

Liberty Studies is an inter-disciplinary field of inquiry dedicated to understanding the foundations, meanings, and implications of what it is to be free. It poses the fundamental question of "What can I do with my life?" It questions the power of institutions and the legitimacy of the constraints they impose. It studies the costs and benefits of free human interaction and examines the need of naturally social animals to be left alone.

What is the Center’s mission?

The Center’s mission is to advance and develop Liberty Studies in the undergraduate curriculum. To meet this challenge, the Center:

• Provides resources to help teachers and students integrate liberty studies into their classroom.
• Holds academic conferences to advance this field of inquiry
• Publishes the first refereed journal in this area, The Journal of Liberty Studies  

How does the Center achieve its goal of helping teachers and students integrate liberty studies into their classroom?

For teachers:

• Provides, free of charge, the novel LibertyModule^tm Course Method for helping educators integrate liberty related coursework into their classes.
• Provide avenues – conferences and the Journal – to help establish liberty as a legitimate field of inquiry on campus.
• Long term plans include providing course development grants to teachers designing new courses in liberty studies and developing a mentoring system for teachers in this area.

For students:

• Publishes the LibertyWiki^tm and LibertyNotes^tm on-line resources to help students integrate liberty into their studies. 
• Collects and publishes data on opportunities for undergraduates to pursue accredited course work in liberty.
• Long terms plans include conducting onsite courses

Is the Center committed to advancing a particular concept of liberty?

The Center for Liberty Studies is neutral as to theories of liberty, and welcomes all reasonable voices on the topic. 

We are a voluntary community united by an interest in undergraduate education and the principles of liberty. Our sole purpose is to provide an educational setting where students and faculty are free to explore, debate and discuss ideas on liberty. We believe this can best be accomplished in a setting that embraces a plurality of views with regards both to the principles of liberty and their manner of instruction. 

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