• Learning the art of interdisciplinary inquiry.
• Learning about the ideas that have guided human history.
• Improving one's ability to listen, to think critically, and to reflect on the world.
• Improving as a writer and speaker.
• Developing the resources of the imagination.
• Growing in understanding of the creative process and the craft of writing.
• Growing in self-knowledge and self-confidence.
• Working closely with a generous and accomplished faculty.
• Earning an advanced degree from a nationally recognized liberal arts university.

Students are motivated to enter the Graduate School of Liberal Studies for personal enrichment and for professional, academic, and artistic development. They range in age from twenty-two to seventy-five. They represent a diversity of careers: academic, government, social service, the arts, education, business, health care, finance, law, journalism, technical writing, ministry, psychology, computer programming, and others. In the Graduate School of Liberal Studies, students join a community of adult learners motivated by the desire to learn, to enrich their personal and professional lives, and to seek deeper meaning as individuals and members of society.