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27 février 2014

Littéraires, visez la Toile !

LeMonde.frPar Et si Internet ouvrait aux passionnés d’écriture et de stylistique les portes des entreprises ? A l’université de Reims, le master « gestion multilingue de l’information » relève ce pari depuis 2007. Recrutant chaque année une quinzaine d’étudiants en lettres, langues ou philosophie, il les prépare à la gestion de projets Web. Suite...
24 février 2014

What is Liberal Arts Education?

By Hasna Haidar. Ever wondered what it would be like to study one of the oldest subjects in the world? ‘Liberal arts’ is one such subject – it goes back to the Ancient Greeks who considered a liberal arts education to be the ultimate mark of an educated person. Interestingly, while liberal arts education has long had an established place in the US higher education system, it has only recently resurfaced in continental Europe, where it originated. Meanwhile in Asia, discussions about introducing liberal arts have started to gain momentum in the past year (2013), while there is as yet only one liberal arts college based in Africa – Ashesi University in Ghana, founded in 2002.
Read on for a fuller exploration of the question “What is liberal arts?” – including all you need to know about what studying liberal arts entails and what students can gain from a liberal arts degree. More...

23 février 2014

Obama Apologizes to an Art Historian for His Jab About the Discipline

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . President Obama has sent a handwritten apology to an art historian at the University of Texas at Austin who wrote to him to defend her discipline after he joked last month about the value of art-history degrees, according to the art blog Hyperallergic.
Mr. Obama made the remark during a speech about job training, saying, “folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art-history degree.”
Ann Collins Johns, a senior lecturer in the university’s department of art and art history, wrote a letter to Mr. Obama through the White House’s website shortly after he made the joke, which upset many in higher education. More...

23 février 2014

Apology From Obama

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. President Obama disappointed many art history professors in January when he seemed to question the value of their discipline. In a speech promoting his job training and manufacturing proposals, Obama said: "[A] lot of young people no longer see the trades and skilled manufacturing as a viable career. But I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree. Now, nothing wrong with an art history degree -- I love art history. So I don't want to get a bunch of emails from everybody. I'm just saying you can make a really good living and have a great career without getting a four-year college education as long as you get the skills and the training that you need." Read more...

23 février 2014

Strategies for the Small

HomeBy Carl Straumsheim. Liberal arts college, 161, seeks scalable, highly customizable online education solution. Must like Socratic method, small group settings. Let's enjoy Great Books together. Shimer College in Chicago, where classes of about a dozen students and an instructor pore over Great Books, will this spring pilot as many different technologies as possible in an attempt to create an all-online version of its discussion-based classroom. Read more...

23 février 2014

Humanities could be replaced by '7 Habits' self-help

Times Higher EducationBy Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed. Lectures on “putting first things first” and “beginning with the end in mind” could soon replace those on world civilisations and logic for some students enrolled in San Antonio area community colleges.
Bruce Leslie, chancellor of the Alamo Colleges, is hoping that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will approve his bid for a course heavily influenced by the popular self-help book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to become part of the core curriculum, in place of a humanities course. But faculty and administrators at one of Alamo’s five colleges are opposing the proposal, raising both curricular and procedural concerns. Read more...
17 février 2014

A Liberal-Arts College That Gets It Right

subscribe todayBy Kevin Carey. In the autumn of 2012, a year after becoming president of Davidson College, Carol Quillen gave a lecture about the intimacy of relationships with the dead. A scholar of Italian humanism by training, she read Machiavelli’s account of his nighttime journeys into the "ancient courts of ancient men," where, among the authors of antiquity, he was "not ashamed to speak with them and to ask them the reason for their actions; and they in their kindness answer me; and for four hours of time I do not feel boredom, I forget every trouble, I do not dread poverty, I am not frightened by death; entirely I give myself over to them."
The lecture was part of Davidson’s undergraduate humanities curriculum, a program with its own long history that now struggles to compete for students’ attention. More...

16 février 2014

The rise of energy humanities

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQWMTBx0CPzMFK637Zb6AgNbjhxfVRtTVkrwKoq4ZPL2p18KKWOEwB3AWIBy Dominic Boyer and Imre Szeman. Breaking the impasse.
We’ve become all too familiar with bad news stories about the fate of the humanities. Whether as a result of student desires for an education that translates directly into a career or aggressive actions by governments that look only to the bottom line, many have begun to imagine that the 21st century might be the time when the humanities wither and disappear. More...

16 février 2014

Humanities or Self-Help?

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgBy Colleen Flaherty. Lectures on “putting first things first” and “beginning with the end in mind” could soon replace those on world civilizations and logic for some students enrolled in San Antonio area community colleges. Bruce Leslie, chancellor of the Alamo Colleges, is hoping that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will approve his bid for a course heavily influenced by the popular self-help book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to become part of the core curriculum, in place of a humanities course. Read more...

12 février 2014

La sociologie n’est pas une usine à chômeurs

LibérationPar 150 signataires Responsables de formations et élus universitaires. Derrière l’injonction à une prétendue excellence, nous assistons, depuis quelques années, à une stigmatisation récurrente des universités françaises, de leurs missions, de leurs étudiants, qui conduit à leur fragilisation. Les formations de lettres et sciences humaines et sociales (SHS) font particulièrement les frais de ces discours de disqualification. Nous, sociologues, membres d’associations professionnelles, élus dans les conseils centraux des universités, directrices et directeurs d’UFR, responsables de formations (licence, master, doctorat) en sociologie, voulons montrer que ces discours relèvent de préjugés ou de parti pris idéologiques non fondés.
Il n’est pas rare que des journalistes ou des représentants politiques, y compris haut placés, dénoncent la prétendue faiblesse des débouchés professionnels des SHS, et de la sociologie en particulier. Geneviève Fioraso, «notre» ministre, déclarait ainsi récemment : «Dès la seconde, les jeunes doivent savoir que des filières, comme l’histoire, la sociologie ou la psychologie, connaissent des difficultés d’insertion. Ils doivent être prévenus (1).» De tels propos sont parfois relayés par des journalistes… Dans des débats dominés par la référence aux «grandes écoles» les plus sélectives, l’université, et en son sein les filières de SHS sont souvent présentées comme des filières inutiles, accueillant des étudiants indécis et peu doués, pilotés par des universitaires insouciants et irresponsables, déconnectés des «vrais enjeux», évidemment économiques… mais, dans les faits, il en va bien autrement. Les destins des diplômés de lettres et SHS n’ont rien à envier à ceux de bien d’autres filières.
Cette tribune est une synthèse de la version originale signée (et encore signable) accessible ici :http://www.petitions24.net/non_la_sociologie_nest_pas_une_usine_a_chomeurs. Suite de l'article...

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