a decade ago i might have revealed my perception that there existed a strange and even dirty little secret within the liberal arts college sector that many national liberal arts colleges have offered robust professional programs but that they could not talk about them openly liberal artsprofessional divide is an illusion postcollege graduation is the first time that many graduates will have to be financially responsible and fully support themselves part of that responsibility includes paying off their student loans a college graduates guide to student loans i recently attended the 21st century childrens nonfiction conference where the conversation encompassed all things nonfiction from writing it to publishing it to teaching it what interested me most was what i knew least how can gifted teachers use nonfiction in the classroom in case you dont know what great teaching looks like