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The book highlights that the aim of liberal arts education should not be to teach an array of humanities courses, but to bring liberal learning to students by encompassing both arts and sciences and including practical and professional areas. It addresses the questions:

What changes have been observed in the core values, concepts, and models of liberal learning across different contexts and in different institutional settings?

How can we relate those values, concepts, and models to liberal (and broader) learning?

Have we observed tensions between the existing models of higher education and liberal arts & sciences education?

What difficulties/challenges have liberal arts colleges and programs in each region faced and how have those issues been addressed?

How are various types of institutions in different parts of the world addressing the challenge of preparing their students for an unpredictable, uncertain, and inter- and cross-cultural future?

What are some emerging and successful models of liberal learning, linking learning to a vocational and professional education?

The book includes theoretical and conceptual discussions, case studies and lessons learned from different regions, research implications, and practical and policy advice to help practitioners/educators and policy leaders to review, rethink, and improve values, goals, and practices of their liberal arts and sciences education.

The Reinvention of Liberal Learning Around the Globe

Part 1: Setting the Scene.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2:  The Liberal Arts Tradition in Higher Education: The East and the West.- Chapter 3: Demographics and the Demand for Liberal Learning.- Part 2: Diverse Approaches to Reinventing Liberal Learning.- Chapter 4:  Educating Students for a World Lived in Common: The Essential Learning Outcomes.- Chapter 5:  The New Liberal Arts: A Case of Hiram College, USA.- Chapter 6:  Strengthening the Liberal Arts by Integrating Sciences: A Case from Erasmus University College, the Netherlands.- Chapter 7:  The Christian and Liberal Arts Focus in a Professional Graduate Program: A Case of the International Law School of Handong Global University, South Korea.- Chapter 8:  Recontextualizing the Liberal Arts within Traditional Research Universities in Asia.- Chapter 9:  Educating Entrepreneurial Leaders with Ethical Mindsets and Critical Thinking: A Case of Ashei University, Ghana.- Chapter 10:  Graduate Studies within a Liberal Arts College Context: A Case of Lingnan University, Hong Kong.- Chapter 11:  Assessment and Institutional Research to Shape the Future of Liberal Arts Education: A Case of Middlebury College, USA.- Chapter 12:  Sustainable Financial Models for Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Lessons from European Higher Education.- Chapter 13:  Seventy Years of International Partnership: International Christian University in Japan and Japan ICU Foundation in the USA.- Part 3: Toward the Future.- Chapter 14: Learning and Career Outcomes of Liberal Arts Education and Future Implications.- Chapter 15: A Decade of Opportunities and New Challenges.- Chapter 16: Future Trajectories of Lifetime Liberal Learning.