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

The PIE News

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

That vocabulary must be challenging, so that it provokes new thinking, but it must not be overly technical or oriented towards engineering or architectural concerns. This was an emergency response, not an active choice, and it brought with it a large number of disadvantages to students and academic staff. Julianne : It has!

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. One that holds onto more of the residential liberal arts college tradition.