Talking Points
This section provides links to the ongoing debates about the value of the arts and humanities in education and everyday life.
- How to Avoid a Bonfire of the Humanities
- Great Colleges to Work For
- At Great Colleges, Respect is a Crucial Benefit
- College Costs Too Much Because Faculty Lack Power
- Survival Strategy for Humanists: Engage, Engage
- Humanities Have a Place, Even at Caltech
- On the Importance of Reading
- Democratic Capacities and the Arts and Humanities
- Revenge of the Liberal Arts Major
- Holocaust Remembrance at CSUB
- Rethinking the Value of A Business Major
- A Global Education No Longer Optional
- On Education: Racial Lens Used to Cull Curriculum in Arizona
- Career Counselor: Steve Jobs or Bill Gates?
- The Value of Philosophy Degrees
- In California's Inland Regions, Culture Thrives Outside Mainstream
- In Pursuit of the Sublime
- Joy in Russia as a Symbol of the Arts Reopens
- The Man Who Inspired Jobs
- Forks in the Road: The Many Paths of Arts Alumni
- Strangers on a Train
- Beyond Super and Ill-Prepared Students, How About Some With Creativity?
- Your So-called Education
- Don’t look to the Ivy League
- U Albany move criticized
- An Evening of Examined Life
- Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education
- Saving Public Universities, Starting With My Own
- Lives of the Philosophers, Warts and All
- At End-Of-The Line Prison, An Unlikely Escape
- Poetry, Painting to Earn an M.D.
- Wolf Trap Foundation – Turning STEM to STEAM in Early Childhood Education
- Artsmarts: Why Cutting Arts Funding Is Not a Good Idea. Funding the arts funds scientific innovation and economic development.
- Poetry for Everyday Life
- From Technologist to Philosopher: Why you should quit your technology job and get a Ph.D. in the humanities
- Want Innovative Thinking? Hire from the Humanities
- The 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Ceremony
- Even for Cashiers, College Pays Off
- College the Easy Way
- Federation of State Humanities Councils: Programs
- Quality of Place + Quality of Opportunity = ArtPlace
- What John Keats Can Teach a CEO: The lessons of language afforded by poetry can be a particularly valuable resource for any workplace.
- Protecting the Humanities From What?
- Arts & Humanities: Toward a Flourishing State?
- Music and Creativity: Music can spark creativity in math and science
- South Carolina Legislature Overrides Governors Veto, Keeps Arts Funding
- Duke to Overhaul Humanities: Mellon Foundation grant aims to reverse declining enrollments in the humanities
- Students Search for Marketable Majors