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Here, she writes about US liberalarts degrees. ComputerScience and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. ComputerScience and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. What job could a person possibly get with an ArtHistory degree, for instance?
Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberalarts. I know I can find support for the value of the liberalarts among the leaders of the very STEM disciplines whose popularity my colleagues decry.
Liberalarts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. STEM and science students have OPT , scientists and accounting and finance majors have jobs at both fintech and technology companies – humanities students are feeling the lack of options.
The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberalarts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberalarts degrees took umbrage. Without arthistory, anthropology, and archaeology majors, who will curate our museums?
Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are arthistory, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. Focus on the Future.
And the job market and the demand for people who know how to deal with data and make sense of data has just skyrocketed in the last 20 years,” said Jim Scott, associate professor of statistics at Colby College, the first liberalarts college in Maine to offer a degree in data science this fall.
Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberalarts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year.
A tripartite curriculum -- consisting of general education requirements to guarantee intellectual breadth and ensure that graduates acquire a foundation in the liberalarts, a major to offer depth, and electives to maximize individual choice – is supposed to produce well-rounded graduates. Is this diversity newsletter?:
I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “LiberalArts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). HOLY SWEET CRAP that casual equation of “fewer liberalarts students” = universities becoming vocational schools.
What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberalarts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberalarts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.
From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberalarts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.
Criminal Justice/Justice and Law Administration has created an MS in Homeland Security providing opportunities for advancement for students in business, computerscience, and criminal justice. However, when the world attacks “liberalarts” they tend to point to specific disciplines as no longer relevant or meaningful.
Criminal Justice/Justice and Law Administration has created an MS in Homeland Security providing opportunities for advancement for students in business, computerscience, and criminal justice. However, when the world attacks “liberalarts” they tend to point to specific disciplines as no longer relevant or meaningful.
which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.
This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computerscience department to be thinking about such things. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computerscience and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. What a Neo-Cal State would be like.
I may be old-fashioned, but what I consider essential to a liberalarts education is the interaction with a scholar and with classmates. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this diversity newsletter?:
We are a technology-based school predominantly focused on engineering and computerscience. There’s also a preeminent architecture school, law school, business school, and the School of the Sciences. But there was no civics, history, geography, or any form of a liberalarts education.
Sweeping survey courses on such topics as big history (the sweeping history of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity), ethics, religion, cognitive distortions, social science methods and thinking, and world art, literature, or music. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
About Our Podcast Guest Michael Goldstein has a long history of close engagement with higher education. They were very strong in the sciences, extremely strong in mathematics with the Curran Institute but didn’t have an engineering program. And they felt this particularly in computersciences.
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