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In Defense of a Liberal Education

Fareed Zakaria expresses his views on the need for a Liberal Arts Education

Periodicals/Journals

Here are three examples from a search in the database Proquest Research Library using the terms liberal arts degree workplace. There were 6,254 results.

Asia Invests in Liberal Arts: US Higher Education Expands Abroad
Lewis, PericlesAuthor InformationView Profile. Harvard International Review35.1 (Summer 2013): 36-39

Wanted: Critical Thinkers, Effective Communicators
Scheetz, L PatrickStein-Roggenbuck, SusanBlack Collegian24.3 (Jan 1994): 119.

Liberal Education & the Specialist-Rich Workplace
Lee, DudkaLiberal Education92.1 (Winter 2006): 34-39.

Here is the path to read more:
Library Home Page - Browse Databases - by Subject - General - Proquest Reseach Library

 

TEDx Talks

TEDx Talks

Art Thinking

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From the cover leaf:
"Whether you're a CEO or a freelancer, you know how hard it is to think big, let alone follow up on big ideas, while under pressure to get things done. Art Thinking offers practical principles to acquire skills, inspiration to rethink what's possible, and a healthy dose of pragmatism to help you navigate the difficulties of balancing creative thinking with driving toward results."

Subjects:
Problem solving
Strategic planning
Organizational change

Call NumberHD53 .W5195 2016

Google Search Articles in Blogs

A Google search for liberal arts in the workplace produced 986,000 documents!!!

Liberal Arts and the Work Place by Tim Hall, President, Mercy College in the Huffington Post Blog

How Liberal Arts Offer the Very 'Workplace Skills' Critics Demand by David Maxwell (This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news website focused on inequality and innovation in education.)

Click on the link at the end of the above article and you will find 126 more articles on the value of liberal arts in higher education.

 

Liberal Arts Education for Business

Get a Liberal Arts B.A., for the Coming Artisan Economy
Lawrence Katz, a labor economist at Harvard, on the July 15,2014 PBS NewsHour Making Sen$e program, answers questions about why he feels that a liberal arts degree will be necessary to succeed in business in the 21st Century.