The [Virginia Tech Institute for Leadership in Technology] is a new executive education program for rising technology leaders from around the world. Through courses and a community built around the humanities, it will offer a select class of fellows each year a leadership credential that will help advance a higher form of stewardship.
“The liberal arts and humanities have long loomed large in the technology landscape in fostering the skills of reflection and rigor, introspection, and imagination,” [program founder Rishi] Jaitly said. “With this institute, we at Virginia Tech affirm the role that humanities education and experiences also play, and ought to continue to play, in shaping and sharpening the essential sensibilities of leadership as well.”
The institute’s curriculum will feature courses from the fields of philosophy and religion, the classics and the arts, history and literature, and more….
“No other academic institution has identified humanities as the key to nurturing the highest levels of leadership through an executive program,” said Sylvester Johnson, who is founder of the Center for Humanities and Virginia Tech’s associate vice provost for public interest technology. “Rishi’s vision is not only charting a new future for humanities, but it is also creating a new, positive direction for the future of humanity.”
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