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Humanities
In the Push for Marketable Skills, Are We Forgetting the Beauty and Poetry of STEM Disciplines?
Thousands of students are preparing to begin their job searches with newly earned STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees in hand, eagerly waiting to use the logical, analytical and practical skills they’ve acquired.
Without a Humanistic Inquiry, We Will Lose Our Creativity
Today it is hard to imagine that the national government would spend millions of dollars to put unemployed artists to work for the good of the country.
Why Do We Need the Humanities?
What does all this mean for higher education? Why have the humanities undergone a crisis of legitimacy? And why does this matter?
