Sentences with phrase «many liberal arts»

About 30 colleges and universities may pay a 1.4 percent tax on their endowment investment returns, including Harvard, Yale and small liberal arts colleges such as Amherst and Williams.

In the future, Sims predicts that companies like Codecademy, which teaches people how to code online, will become a more viable alternative to the traditional liberal arts education.

This is also a man who once said, shortly before his death, that great technology by itself wasn't sufficient to make great products: «It's technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our hearts sing.»

And their experience in the liberal arts allowed them to do that well.

«Looking back at the tech teams that I've built at my companies, it's evident that individuals with liberal arts degrees are by far the sharpest, best - performing software developers and technology leaders.

«A well - rounded liberal arts degree establishes a foundation of critical thinking.

Dave and Helen Edwards, co-founders of artificial intelligence research firm Intelligenstia.ai, don't go so far as to suggest a specific course of study, but like Kalt they have publicly insisted that if you want your kids to thrive in an AI - filled future, you better teach them how to handle human beings, unpredictability, and complexity, all of which a liberal arts degree forces you to confront and grow comfortable with.

In fact, in our uncertain world, the out - of - fashion liberal arts degree might actually be your best bet after all.

In late 1972, Jobs had just started at Reed College, an elite liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon.

Like the critical thinking gleaned from a liberal arts degree, for one.

«The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts,» he said.

But unlike other private liberal arts colleges with large endowments, C of O, as it's often called, has accumulated its endowment all while offering four - year degrees to students tuition free.

In contrast, those who concentrated on arts and performing arts or liberal arts and humanities feel the least secure about their futures, the survey found.

«I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than for programming majors and maybe even engineering,» Cuban said.

Walk into a store — old - school hip - hop playing softly, like Muzak for millennials — and you'll find customers leafing through Oak Street, the company's in - house magazine (a recent issue features an editorial by Ethan Song that quotes Steve Jobs's thoughts on the intersection of technology and the liberal arts).

«A liberal arts degree is a good thing.

But with liberal arts majors, if they're really engaged and they really studied, they're curious.»

The school is centered on liberal arts, and it offers 37 majors, including studio art, journalism, and philosophy.

These summer experiences offer deep dives into business fundamentals and are especially helpful to liberal arts graduates with little class work or training in business.

A liberal arts degree, exceptional communications skills plus diplomatic service experience will help qualify candidates for this position.

Master's in management programs are booming, especially among liberal arts grads in pursuit of a competitive edge.

Graham, who became a Southern Baptist, went on to study at Wheaton College, a prominent Christian liberal arts school in Illinois, where he met fellow student Ruth Bell, who had been raised in China where her father had been a Presbyterian medical missionary.

I learned to appreciate and love the arts during my liberal arts education at Goucher College.

Colleges have downgraded liberal arts to stress accounting and engineering, in line with business needs.

For employees, the experience is akin to a never - ending liberal arts education with the world's most prestigious faculty.

Rather, the former talk show host, entrepreneur, actress, and philanthropist receiving an honorary doctorate of letters by the liberal arts school, urged the class of 2017 to channel something more basic: cultivate a clear vision of who you are and what moves you.

Whether the college endowment tax was politically targeted or part of a larger plan to push schools to lower the barrier to entry, it doesn't change the reality that many liberal arts colleges stand to lose significant endowment income.

While this may be a good starting point in some cases, it's increasingly not a helpful strategy, especially in the case of liberal arts students.

But after four years of operating a small startup incubator at a private liberal arts college I've learned a lot about creating business models that work and who might become a successful entrepreneur.

Men respond to increases in the unemployment rates by shifting away from (in order of magnitude of the shift) education, liberal arts and history, literature and language, psychology and sociology.

Liberal arts majors may cringe as they click on PayScale's underemployment report, expecting to see their program at the top of the list for majors most likely to lead to jobs with low hours and / or in unrelated fields.

Despite plenty of evidence that liberal arts graduates also have successful careers, undergraduates (and their parents) tend in tough times to encourage majors in business and engineering or other fields that seem to promise employment.

His methods include valuing liberal arts majors (even though his organization reveres engineering and hands - on skills) and being confrontational in job interviews.

Women are most likely to move away from education (by more than 1 percent share of women's enrollment if counting all education fields together), literature and language, sociology, psychology, and liberal arts and history.

Far too many are saddled with mountains of student - loan debt and have little more than scant work experience and a liberal arts degree to show for it upon graduation.

Polei earned a degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, a Masters in Liberal Arts from Houston Baptist University and took classes at the University of Delaware to fulfill CPA requirements.

If you love liberal arts or cleaning buildings, you must understand that the market doesn't value those things very much, so you won't make much money.

«Boston University» is better than «liberal arts college.»

Some of my peers came from liberal arts background, teaching backgrounds, government / political policy backgrounds, sports backgrounds and science backgrounds just to name a few.

She has more than 20 years» experience in telecommunications, cyber, and ICS security even though she has a liberal arts degree.

5:10 p.m. — 6:00 p.m. Robert Hagstrom Author, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Legg Mason Topic: «Investing: The Last Liberal Art» 6:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CFA Society of Nebraska / Value Investor Conference Dinner 2012 Reception Sponsored by Morningstar Note Location Change: Omaha Marriott (10220 Regency Circle) Separate Registration Required Keynote Speaker: Tom Russo Topic: «Global Value Investing»

Andrea: I received my BA in Psychology from the University of Puget Sound, a small liberal arts school in Tacoma, WA.

Mr. Taylor earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese and a Bachelor of Arts in Russian both from the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.

Embarrassed by the fallout from the resignation of the former chair of the B.C. Arts Council, the B.C. Liberal arts minister went on the radio to spread misinformation about why she resigned.

The University System of Maryland has come up with a way to help liberal arts students who struggle with algebra.

So instead of recommending Jaume, I'll turn you to what is, so far, a pretty solid recent collection on Tocqueville, which I know contains one particularly rich essay, «Tocquevillean Thoughts on Higher Education in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specifically.

@Ben What is your basis for concluding that people in the fields of math, medicine, and engineering are «better educated» than those who pursue liberal arts?

Remember here our Mr. Ceaser's alliance with the sociological left against UVA's Board of Visitors» efforts at disruption against the unproductive liberal arts and toward online education, MOOCS, and such.

It could just as well be argued that those in the liberal arts become more adept at literature, music, or philosophy and are, therefore, «better educated».

«The point of my going was that I wanted to be a songwriter for a living, and I thought that it would make me a better songwriter to have a solid liberal arts and humanities basis,» he said.