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- Gary Becker: How to Survive in an Uncertain Economy
- Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker discusses what makes an employee valuable in today's workplace — and explains why a liberal arts education is the best asset in a volatile economy. Becker’s initial ideas about human capital were controversial at the time...
- Articles 2009-08-14
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- Co-opting the marketplace in service of liberal arts education - My View
- FROM THE OUTSET, we need to acknowledge the stark reality today: the prevalence--one might say the hegemony--of the marketplace imperative in American society. While we may appreciate the value of a liberal arts education, contemporary students do not necessarily share that sentiment. Times have changed: In 1900, 70 percent of...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Should Managers Study the Liberal Arts?
- Should Managers Study the Liberal Arts?Yes & NoQuite frequently in my travels through the business community, I notice where my Liberal Arts education (BA - English Major) has helped me. Not just with my communication skills but with my overall understanding of the world. Outside of my major,...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Should Managers Study the Liberal Arts?
- Here at BNET we have a whole blog dedicated to all things MBA-- all the hows and whys of going to business school. Today on his blog, Marginal Revolution, economist Tyler Cower talks about the ROI on a liberal arts education. What does studying the cultural products of man yield?...
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Learn to market your liberal arts degree for a lifetime career
- With employment prospects tight for recent college graduates, many students are shying away from a liberal arts education. Instead, students seek secure, practical majors, such as engineering or business, which have a definite career path and a sure niche in the employment market. But a liberal arts degree does not...
- Research articles 1994-10-01
- Revenge of the Liberal Arts Graduates?
- Geoffrey Moore, author of the pathbreaking and essential business book Crossing the Chasm, just blogged about the Davos 07 theme "The Shifting Power Equation." Moore says:The shift from computing to communications also has profound implications for the redistribution of power. As the Internet continues to work its transformation of the...
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- Revenge of the Liberal Arts Graduates?
- Geoffrey Moore, author of the pathbreaking and essential business book Crossing the Chasm, just blogged about the Davos '07 theme "The Shifting Power Equation." Moore says:The shift from computing to communications also has profound implications for the redistribution of power. As the Internet continues to work its transformation of the...
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- Liberal arts symposium
- SANDY -- The Waterford School kicks off its Liberal Arts Symposium Series, featuring prominent writers including the author of "Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling," Friday at its Sandy campus, 1480 East 9400 South. Prominent speakers will share their insights into liberal arts' role in education. The public event...
- Research articles 2006-10-19
- The worthiness of Bollinger's challenge: `for craft training to be accorded due respect does not mean all else must be shunned.' (Journalism Education).
- Like just about every subject we journalists touch, the argument about the value of journalism schools gets continually forced into a false dichotomy. Some editors lament journalism education's increasing prominence, swearing instead by the smart young person with a good liberal arts education. Others contend there's...
- Research articles 2002-12-22
- Why MBAs Need More Than Business
- While perusing BNET, I came across a blog post by Jessica Stillman that caught my eye: "Should Managers Study the Liberal Arts?" (Sure, it's a couple of months old, but it posted right before the holidays, so I bet I'm not the only one who may have missed it.) ...
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- Wisconsin pilot effort
- Wisconsin has become the first official pilot state for Liberal Education and America's Promise LEAP, AAC & U's ten-year campaign to champion the value of a liberal education. AAC & U is partnering with the University of Wisconsin System through its Currency of the Liberal Arts and Sciences: Rethinking Liberal...
- Research articles 2005-03-22
- Shooting the gap: Engaging Today's faculty in the liberal arts
- IN "WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN COLLEGE: How Students View and Value Liberal Education" (2005), Debra Humphreys and Abigail Davenport present the findings of a study that asked high school and college students about their impressions of liberal education. Humphreys and Davenport found that, on the whole, these students--including those already...
- Research articles 2006-06-22
- Did Marymount have to close? Ex-president blames Fordham.(FOCUS: Education, MBA Programs)
- When the 2007 Class of Marymount College graduates, it will mark the centennial--and a sad ending--to the all-women's liberal arts school in Tarrytown, N.Y. The controversial ending to the college comes about after more than two decades of financial When the 2007 Class of Marymount...
- Research articles 2005-11-14
- radicalism of the liberal arts tradition, The
- Can liberal education survive in a university increasingly committed to the ideals of the market, the corporation, and the entrepreneur? For some time now, critics of American higher education have depicted it as caught up in a cultural war between politically correct leftists inside the university and neoconservative curmudgeons outside...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Babson College Receives Over $1 Million for Studio Arts Facility; Gift Supports College's Commitment to Liberal Arts Learning at Business School
- Business/Education Editors WELLESLEY, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 25, 2001 Babson alumnus and former Babson College Trustee, Richard W. Sorenson and his wife Sandra have contributed over $1 million to help endow a new studio arts facility at Babson College. The gift will help to support renovation of a 4,200...
- Research articles 2001-01-25
- World Premiere of GET SMART - Monday, June 16
- Warner Bros. Pictures:[TABLE OMITTED] About the USC School of Cinematic Arts - http://cinema.usc.edu Since 1929, the USC School of Cinematic Arts has fueled and mirrored the growth of entertainment as an industry and an art form. The school offers comprehensive programs in directing, producing, writing, critical studies,...
- Research articles 2008-06-13
- Education Solves Everything? Err, Not So Fast
- Ross Douthat writes an excellent, wise blog called The American Scene, a right-leaning take on politics and culture.Ross reminds us that education is not everything; it certainly is not the cure-all for our economic anxieties people like to make it out to be. As Ross notes, its a sexy line:...
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Online Learning For Professional And Liberal Arts Degrees
- What is up with the internet? What about it makes it so appealing to people of old age, education level, etc&? Many people of all ages, races, education levels, and other such statuses are taking classes online. Some of these classes are free, some are meant to give you a...
- White papers 2006-03-20
- Bentley College-Watchfire Survey of Online Privacy Practices in Higher Education Reveals Risk Management Issues for U.S. Colleges and Universities
- WALTHAM, Mass. -- A first-of-its-kind national survey of online privacy practices in higher education, conducted by Bentley College and Watchfire, reveals that while most schools engage in e-commerce, only 65 of 236 schools surveyed have privacy notices linked from their home page while nearly all schools surveyed engage in practices...
- Research articles 2006-04-24
- The Ups and Downs of a Career in Journalism
- It would be interesting to know what percentage of news-editorial students immediately abandon ship on a journalism career after getting their first taste of the meager wages. I certainly retreated in horror as a fresh college grad when confronted by the reality of a starting newsroom salary. ...
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
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