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US liberal arts could shift focus to help post-study work options

The PIE News

Liberal arts 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.

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Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

University Business

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. psychology majors was up 4% year-over-year as of spring 2022.). New tools. Data can help do that.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

So the institution’s disclosure that it briefed the Board of Visitors on not just a department but a possible division-level unit of computational and data science stunned many on campus. William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance.

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Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences

University Business

From fall 2021 to fall 2023, enrollment in computer and information sciences increased by 21.4% from 2017 to 2022. art history students are tasked with creating a search on the cost and origin of 17th-century textiles, for example, according to the school’s website. At Middlebury College (Vt.),

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Universities should be “skills brokers” for mutual benefit, urges report

The PIE News

Across the four countries analysed in the report, employer demand was similar in 2022, with engineering, computer science, nursing and business graduates highly sought after. “There is going to be a continuing need for liberal arts because critical thinking is still a fundamental skill,” he detailed.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts 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.

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Colleges used these 3 strategies to spark big enrollment rebounds this Fall

University Business

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. While the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s enrollment overall is down from Fall 2022, it has seen an 11.5%