In 1972, Jobs headed to Oregon, where he attended a small liberal arts college.

1972年，乔布斯前往俄勒冈州，就读于一所小型文理学院。

Let's talk about the status of small liberal arts colleges across the US.

那么我们来谈谈美国小型文科院校的地位。

For example, many liberal arts colleges value a diverse education that covers several topics.

例如，许多文理学院重视涵盖多个主题的多样化教育。

There are a variety of reasons why small liberal arts colleges are closing.

小型文科学院关停的原因有很多。

They include community colleges, private and liberal arts colleges and even technical colleges and trade schools.

其中包括社区学院、私立和文科学院，甚至技术学院和中等职业学校。

Through course sharing, small liberal arts colleges can quickly add the technical programs that students want at less cost.

通过课程共享，小型文科院校可以以更低的成本快速增加学生想要的技术课程。

And there's also been this rhetoric that I mentioned where liberal arts colleges are being called into question.

还有一些我提到的文科学院受到质疑的论调。

The son of an Auschwitz survivor who became a prosperous Chicago architect, he had originally gone to Bowdoin, a liberal arts college in Maine.

他的父亲是奥斯维辛集中营的幸存者，后来在芝加哥成为了一名成功的建筑师。弗里德兰原本是在缅因州的鲍登文理学院读书的。

Swarthmore is a private liberal arts college near Philadelphia.

斯沃斯莫尔学院是费城附近的一所私立文理学院。

Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Dean of the liberal arts college at Norfolk State University, adds that it's important to place a demand on future leaders.

诺福克州立大学文科学院院长卡Cassandra Newby-Alexander补充说，向未来的领导人提出要求很重要。

A number of small liberal arts colleges are at risk, in part because of this rhetoric, but also because they have served very distinctive missions.

一些规模较小的文理学院正面临风险，部分原因是它们的言辞，但也因为它们履行了非常独特的使命。

An increasing number of mostly small, liberal arts colleges in the United States are drawing students like Smith by sharing courses online with large universities.

美国越来越多的小型文科学院通过与大型大学在线分享课程来吸引诸如史密斯这样的学生。

You go to some incredible liberal arts college, and you can study a bunch of different subjects until you figure out what you're passionate about.

你可以去某个很棒的人文学院，学许多不同的学科，直到你发现自己的热情所在。

And I think that makes all the difference at a time when we are trying to establish new pipelines for a diverse populations in liberal arts colleges.

我认为，如果我们可以为文科院校的不同人群建立新的渠道，那么情况会大有不同。

If a college is a liberal arts college, it's going to be focused on offering a robust undergraduate education in, well, the liberal arts: the social and natural sciences, the humanities, and arts.

如果一所大学是文理学院，它将专注于在文理领域提供健全的本科教育：社会和自然科学，人文和艺术。

So a few months ago, I was giving a talk at a small liberal arts college, and a student came up to me afterwards and he said, kind of shyly, " So, I tried your study, and it didn't work."

几个月前，我在一所小型 文理学院做演讲，演讲结束后，一名男生过来找我， 他怯生生地说，“嗯，我试过你的方法了，但是不管用。”