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15 02, 2017

The humanities at Davos (YaleNews)

By |2017-03-08T22:36:19-05:00February 15th, 2017|2017, Academia, business, Debate / dialogue, Economics, Europe, Everything Else, February, Language, Literature, Music, News, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

The humanities at Davos: Yale's President Peter Salovey, a scholar of emotional intelligence, speaks at the World Economic Forum about the place of humanities. From the article: Speaking at the reception ... Salovey emphasized the ways that the humanities can promote understanding, such as how the study of languages can provide insights into a culture, reading literature can [...]

22 01, 2017

Humanities aid the growth of STEM (Neil Kobitz, Chronicle for Higher Education)

By |2017-03-08T22:45:54-05:00January 22nd, 2017|2017, Academia, Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, History, January, Language, Literature, mathematics, News, Politics, science, STEM, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

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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