In A New Agenda for Higher Education, the authors endorse higher
educationâ s utility for enhancing the practical as well as intellectual
dimensions of life by developing a third, different conception of
educational purpose. Based on The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching seminar that brought together educators from six
professional fields with faculty from the liberal arts and sciences, A
New Agenda for Higher Education proposes an educational aim of â
practical reason, â focusing on the interdependence of liberal education
and professional training.