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…
Someone asked me the other day why I do what I do, why I work with students, speak on campuses, research and write about the usefulness of the liberal arts in business, why I offer consulting services—all to connect liberal arts students with careers in business. I have two answers to that question: 1) There’s never been…
Ah ha! There it is in black-and-white in today’s New York Times. In an article about recruiting for an entry-level position at a national exercise company, hiring manager, Carl Diehl writes “In the ad for the position, I had stated that we were particularly open to graduates in the liberal arts” because the position would…
Twenty per cent of all college students major in Business. This not surprising tidbit is part of what Dr. William Sullivan had to tell us last week at the American Association of Colleges and Universities conference. Dr. Sullivan, of the Business Entrepreneurship and Liberal Learning (BELL) project, said if you add Business majors to…
