In this article, the author shares her perspectives on the Bringing Theory to Practice project and liberal education. The Bringing Theory to Practice project has developed strategies and support for the necessary research and for initiatives individual campuses have proposed to affect the multiple and troubling increases in forms of student disengagement. Association of American Colleges and Universities' (AAC&U) partnership with the project has emphasized liberal education's commitment to understanding and strengthening the context in which students learn--including the complex relationships among the multiple aspects of a student's development and the structures and mission of liberal arts and sciences institutions. The partnership has come to reflect the promise of AAC&U's ongoing campaign, Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP), which seeks to advance liberal education for the twenty-first century. The Bringing Theory to Practice project is not only about justifying contributive aspects of a possible strategy for addressing the increasing number of disengaged students, it is equally about the core purposes of colleges. The project asks educators to reexamine what has become on many of their campuses the primary agenda--for that agenda appears to have less and less to do with students. In similar ways, LEAP is not simply about presenting liberal education to wider audiences, or finding preferable language to describe it. LEAP is about the effectiveness of liberal education, the need to understand its most useful nature and meaning, and then to encourage its practice and priority in colleges and universities of all sorts.