How valuable are the humanities? (Carolyn Gregoire, Huffington Post)
The humanities are valuable in all professions.
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11, 2017
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09, 2017
Pictures more than words show the humanities’ challenge
Words yield to pictures as the humanities decline.
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01, 2017
Humanities aid the growth of STEM (Neil Kobitz, Chronicle for Higher Education)
Humanities aid the growth of STEM: a mathematics professor calculates their value, an important formula...when others are now estimating the worth of the NEH as close to zero. From the editorial: ... [F]or STEM majors, as much as for other future professionals, a broad background in the humanities is likely to give them a tremendous advantage in [...]
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05, 2016
Happy graduation, humanities students!
Happy graduation, humanities students! "Better a few good scholars than many indifferent ones." You embody the meaning of George Washington's mandate to James McHenry, to paraphrase: it is infinitely better to have a few good scholars, than many indifferent ones. For the number of humanities majors has now decreased to the lowest level in a [...]
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04, 2016
The master economy and student majors (Jeffrey Dorfman, Forbes)
The master economy and student majors: should states grant incentives to students to select a particular course of study? Dorfman says no: The logic behind such proposals is that state funding should be concentrated on where it provides the highest return on investment, so humanities and other majors perceived as leading to low-paying jobs don’t [...]
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11, 2015
More defense of the liberal arts
Humanities majors have skills
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10, 2019
Tell me a story about money (Heather Long, Washington Post)
The dismal science of economics is brightened by narrative.
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06, 2019
Follow the money: what college students wish they had done differently (Catey Hill, MarketWatch)
College students pay attention to the costs and benefits of their majors, including humanities.
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12, 2018
Burying history (Benjamin M. Schmidt, Perspectives)
History shows the recent steep decline in history majors.
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12, 2017
English study and medical training: what the literature tells us (Mark Abadi, Business Insider)
A healthy knowledge of English enhances medical learning.