For all its promise, tech risks instilling in students an unthinking yet false understanding of themselves, writes University ...

For the sake of workplace preparedness, business leaders and leaders in higher ed need to work together to ensure students ...

With the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, it is almost impossible to keep up with the latest developments and changes that AI is bringing to industries and to people’s daily lives. From the ...

A common myth positions a liberal arts education against a STEM degree, framing the former as a luxury and the latter as the only serious path to success – an image amplified by media rhetoric and ...

The arts and humanities are often dismissed as an unaffordable luxury, when these disciplines underpin vital human skills such as critical thinking, creativity and communication. This collection ...

Facing financial pressure, declining enrollment, and growing skepticism about the value of a degree, Brandeis University is launching a sweeping overhaul and recasting the liberal arts with a focus on ...

In an increasingly tough job market for new graduates, Brandeis University has joined a legion of higher education institutions focusing on skills development and career readiness to prepare students ...

A bold vision for a new era of higher education. Since its founding in 1948, Brandeis University has been defined by academic excellence and the generation of new knowledge with an ethos of critical ...

The arguments came as legislative leaders are pushing to cut $60 million from the state’s eight public colleges and universities with a focus on efficiency and workforce placement. A handful of state ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Liz Doe Stone is the CEO of Top Tier Admissions. It’s easy to imagine a future where humanities degrees vanish from all but ...

In his seminal 1950 essay “The Idea of a College,” Robert Maynard Hutchins, then president of the University of Chicago, made the case for the humanizing ...

W hat do you do with a major in French? Or philosophy, history, or English? This is the question at the heart of all the challenges that now bedevil liberal-arts departments on campuses across the ...