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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

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’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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Humanities majors should pay lower tuition (opinion)

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That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. in economics as it does in humanities fields in most American universities?

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Reflections on Fitzgerald and the Qatar World Cup (opinion)

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Scott Fitzgerald’s definition of intelligence. In the same way, I hoped students would see Qatar’s transformations as containing many political possibilities while recognizing the country had much work to do in terms of human rights. A good liberal arts education should make us do that.

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Why Liberal Education Matters

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Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?

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(Podcast) #22-How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education? Part I- With Hanna Lee

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For our new audience today, you should definitely check out Episodes 17 and 18. Lixing Li 03:14 This is great, Hanna, you definitely have good points. ChatGPT is definitely the most trending one. For instance, Colby College, which is a private liberal arts college. Hello, Hanna.

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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

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“I’m not sure if any program is doing that, but it’s definitely not what we’re doing.” ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in the humanities over all fell 14.1 million Andrew W.

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Informational Holism: Humanities librarianship, liberal arts, and the limitations of quantitative metrics

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Benjamin Dueck is a General Librarian in the Arts & Humanities Division at The University of Manitoba Libraries. Earlier this month, I began working as a full-time Humanities Liaison Librarian at the University of Manitoba. The future of humanities librarianship. You may have a different opinion and I respect that.