The past five years have seen world horizons shrink as a result of the pandemic, even as they have expanded artificially in its aftermath as a result of new technologies. This special issue of Innovative Teaching and Learning, “Liberal Arts, Diversity, and Our Times,” combines reflections on liberal arts and the associated educational and cultural mission when driven, but also challenged, by the complex social, historical, economic and technological developments of our times. With the global rise of joint ventures in liberal arts education crossing Western and non-Western divides, ventures that experienced an important surge in the late twentieth century, it is important to understand how diversity, in the sense of addressing the needs of the whole person but also the widest variety of individuals comprising a student body, is reimagined in global contexts and at important intersections of learning traditions across spaces.