Technology and the Liberal Arts Degree

Why the Tech World Highly Values a Liberal Arts Degree

Valerie Strauss | August 30, 2015

Cecilia Gaposchkin is an associate professor of medieval history at Dartmouth College and assistant dean of faculty for pre-major advising, as well as a Public Voices Fellow. Gaposchkin wrote in an e-mail that people who work at at liberal arts institutions often do “a terrible job” educating their students about their value, and so, she has written this as a “historical explainer” about the purpose and value of a liberal arts education as well as why a degree from one of these schools has, perhaps counter-intuitively, become a hot ticket into the high-powered world of technology.

Source: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/are-liberal-arts-degrees-useful/ (April 5, 2012)

<more at https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/08/30/why-the-tech-world-highly-values-a-liberal-arts-degree/; related links: http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2015/07/29/liberal-arts-degree-tech/ (That 'Useless' Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech's Hottest Ticket. July 29, 2015) and http://chronicle.com/article/To-Save-the-Humanities-Change/149513/ (To Save the Humanities, Change the Narrative. October 20, 2014)>