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November 19, 2021

Berkeley L&S

At the recent Times Higher Education Teaching Excellence Summit, UC Berkeley Dean of Arts + Humanities Sara Guyer spoke in a session on "The value of critical thinking in a post-pandemic world."

November 10, 2021

UC Berkeley Library News

Now an art collector and exhibition curator, [Alan] Templeton recently gifted UC Berkeley’s Art History/Classics Library an endowment for its fine arts collection, allowing the library to support journeys to other worlds and perspectives for decades to come.

August 30, 2021

Forbes

"Critical thinking, on the other hand, is a permanent asset. A knowledge of history is a permanent asset. Skill in a language is a permanent asset. The liberal arts are the edge that students are looking for, the best foundation for a successful career in the finance industry."

January 15, 2021

Science Friday

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2020 was a fruitful year for conspiracy theories: QAnon gained followers, COVID-19 misinformation proliferated in viral YouTube videos, and in November, President Trump helped proliferate the entirely false narrative that the election he’d lost was, in fact, stolen. 

January 13, 2020

AAMC

How the Arts & Humanities are providing med students with critical communication skills.

November 29, 2019

Inc.

Liberal Arts hiring is set to shoot up in 2020.

November 18, 2019

CNBC.com

International banks want their new hires to have liberal arts backgrounds.

October 19, 2019

The Washington Post

The art of narrative economics requires humanities majors.

August 16, 2019

AAMC News

Rafael Campo, MD, combines medicine and poetry to have "two ways of knowing about the human experience."

July 22, 2019

UC Berkeley Blog

Does Berkeley realize the value of its humanities programs as much as the rest of the world does?

June 20, 2019

Forbes

You'll find liberal arts students in all types of positions in tech companies, from entry-level to management, and communications to software.

June 10, 2019

Washington Post

"Because technology is about people as much as things."

April 17, 2019

Vulture

"All poetry should live within the individual and shout toward the collective."

April 2, 2019

New York Times

Readers support learning more languages.

March 28, 2019

Times of India

Creatives and humanists make up almost 10% of Microsoft's AI core team.

March 26, 2019

New York Times

Why it's important for Americans to learn additional languages.

March 13, 2019

Mellon Foundation

Philosophy's critical role in a successful investment career

February 15, 2019

Inside Higher Ed

A new study shows that liberal arts college grads are doing fine and seeing economic mobility -- and that much of what is said about graduates of these programs is not backed by evidence.

January 8, 2019

Andrew Mellon Foundation

Here's why the liberal arts will rule the digital world.

November 13, 2018

Inside Higher Ed

The changing economy has created a greater need for liberal arts skills, according to study.