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There are three things employers despair about finding in the workplace today: Employees in their midst (1) who are capable of critical thinking, (2) who can negotiate difficult emotional territory and (3) who can write. In short, employees who can cogitate, navigate, communicate. It doesn’t often occur to hiring managers to turn to humanities…
Florida’s Governor Rick Scott rides again. Last year, he announced he didn’t believe in funding a liberal arts education, and now he’s done something about it. This morning’s New York Times reports that, in Florida’s state-funded schools, Governor Scott is substantially reducing the cost of four-year science/tech/engineering degrees. You know, then, what that does to…
Hiring managers, well-meaning family members, and media pundits continue to assume the liberal arts are the educational breeding ground for the exploratory and artsy, producing graduates who have neither job skills nor job prospects. Instead of crisp technicians ready to crunch numbers and take home bonus pay, these misguided people think liberal arts majors are…
For faculty and advisors: When was the last time you told your liberal arts students that knowing how to develop a cogent essay is the best preparation in the world for business writing of all kinds? Okay, maybe there’s a bit of hyperbole in there, but not much. The fact is anyone who can write…
A few weeks ago, Florida’s Governor Rick Scott proposed cutting the funding for liberal arts programs in his state’s public universities. His predictable argument, guaranteed to inflame those of us who know better, goes like this: the only students worth hiring are science, technology and math grads; the liberal arts are frivolous. Governor Scott…
Recently, I attended a session where psychologist Ken Nowack talked about the ins and outs of management feedback at work. Dr. Nowack’s research looks into how managers and supervisors who deliver feedback badly can actually cause physical harm to the employees they’re criticizing or advising. Study after study proves that how feedback is delivered directly…
