For Faculty and Career Advisors

Ever heard this from your liberal arts students?  “What am I going to do with my major?”  Or “I’ll never need to know how to write an essay in ‘the real world’!”

How about some “real-world” encouragement you can pass along to distraught students who think their future lies in publishing (if they’re lucky) or fast food prep (if they’re not)?  Here’s the real story:  Business leaders look long and hard to find three abilities among prospective employees that liberal arts students already have:

  1. Ability to communicate (write, speak, read, listen)
  2. Ability to analyze (synthesize direction from detail, deal with abstraction)
  3. Ability to understand where others “are coming from” (human motivation and the power of culture)

Students who study history, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and other cultural studies have an advantage?

Find out more!

TIP SHEETS:

My Irrelevant Major

The ROI on Better Writing

Soft Skills

Beyond TIP SHEETS :

Nothing Prepares You for Leadership Like the Liberal Arts! is a one-hour presentation using humor, practical advice and examples drawn directly from business today, to help students (and their advisors) see the direct connection between a liberal arts education and today’s workplace.



"Students today face substantial pressures towards vocationalism at too preliminary a stage in their developing lives."
— James O. Freedman, Idealism and Liberal Education, 1998

"The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."
— Albert Einstein