December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
178 pages
4h 23m
English
Content preview from The Relevance of Humanities to the 21st Century Workplace
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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
—Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Introduction
The first disconnect concerns the words liberal arts, humanities, liberal arts colleges, and liberal education. Over the last few decades, higher education administrators, faculty, and board members have failed at explaining those outside of the academy understand those words. The end result has been constant confusion over the definition of each word as well as the relevance of a humanities education in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) global marketplace. In a world of constant disruption, change, and hyperconnectivity, higher ...