CONNECT YOUR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Some of the more famous ones featured here explain what was valuable about their undergraduate education:http://www.onlinemba.com/blog/8-famous-ceos-who-were-liberal-arts-majors/ 

USA Today reports that liberal arts students can have a leg up in a floundering economy. The abilities to “think critically, reason analytically and write effectively” tend to lead to lower unemployment rates, less student loan debt, and great independence. Read more here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-01-24/liberal-arts-education-graduates/52779652/1

A new book, Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession (Jossey-Bass, 2011), proposes to import liberal arts training into the business major to correct some of its deficiencies. An article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed says that this proposal is a response to Academically Adrift, a book claiming that business majors score…

This Newsweek article reflects research conducted by Georgetown on the value of college degrees according to least unemployment after graduation, salary, long-term advancement potential, etc. See more here: http://newsweek.tumblr.com/post/21784902381/the-13-most-useful-college-majors-as-determined-by *thanks to Corry Cropper for link

“A liberal arts education also offers the ability to focus on large ideas. We live in a world where everyone is multitasking, often skimming the surface and reacting to sound bites. But as undergraduates, we had the opportunity to read great literature and history, to focus and to consider. This developed a standard of depth…

“Anyone making the case for the irrelevance of liberal arts colleges cannot explain away the oversize contribution that graduates of liberal arts colleges continue to make to commerce, science, technology, the arts, and higher education. As you know, just 3 percent of American college graduates are educated at a residential liberal arts college. Yet the…

“Liberal education is about cultivating in students a set of capacities and talents, rather than preparing them for a particular profession or imparting to them a particular body of knowledge or set of discrete skills. I think liberal education develops a person’s capacities like nothing else. […] To help students cultivate humane instincts, to develop…

Scholarships & Fellowship Opportunities ► Alpha Kappa Alpha Merit Scholarship: Offers $750-$2,500 to undergraduate and graduate students who   are excelling academically. Deadline: April 15, 2012 ► DAAD: German Studies Research Grant (DAAD): The DAAD offers the opportunity for undergraduates and graduates to study abroad in Germany. At least two years of college German, or the…

Excerpt: Recent college graduates who as seniors scored highest on a standardized test to measure how well they think, reason and write — skills most associated with a liberal arts education — were far more likely to be better off financially than those who scored lowest, says the survey, released Wednesday by the Social Science…

Excerpt: “The biggest complaint: The undergraduate degrees focus too much on the nuts and bolts of finance and accounting and don’t develop enough critical thinking and problem-solving skills through long essays, in-class debates and other hallmarks of liberal-arts courses. Companies say they need flexible thinkers with innovative ideas and a broad knowledge base derived from…