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Professor David Lummus's "Italy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," a new "Gateways to the World" course aimed at students interested in studying abroad in Italy....

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Stanford University President John Hennessy discusses education and the future for the school at Bloomberg’s Next Big Thing Technology Summit on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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Why professors, librarians, and politicians are shunning liberal arts in the name of STEM

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Designed to showcase the arts as an essential part of scholarly and public life, Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture (ITALIC) gives first-year students a place to explore the arts practically and analytically, regardless of their majors.

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Speaking at the Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching lecture series, history Professor James Campbell underscores the value of historical knowledge in a tech-centric world.

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Know a recent graduate? Don’t say these things to them!

  1) So, what are you going to do with your life?

2) Welcome to the “real” world.

3) Good luck finding a job!

4) You studied history?! You should have studied business or engineering. Then maybe you could find a job.

5) When do your loan payments start?

6) Those were the four best years of your life. It’s all downhill from here.

7) How are you actually going to use your degree?

8) Too bad you don’t get summers off anymore.

9) Do you even have work experience?

10) You haven’t found a job? You must not be trying hard enough.

11) It’s no longer socially acceptable to eat ramen noodle soup for dinner every night- you’re an adult now!

  Here’s the low down, recent grads…

  Those statements above? Those are what we call “the noise.” What’s “the noise?” It’s the messages you hear from society (including family, friends, or strangers) that often influence what you think you should do with your life. It is a constant process to shed the noise and focus on what matters to you most…but a worthwhile one.

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Let's stop talking about the death or decline of the arts and humanities. Let's explicitly engage with its rebirth....

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MIT’s Deborah K. Fitzgerald and Kenan Sahin address the value of the humanities at MIT.

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Education in the humanities is important preparation for a career in medicine. Understanding why begins with an appreciation of the critical role of the humanities in enabling each of us to have a more meaningful, thoughtful and insightful life. Through the study of disciplines such as history, philosophy, religion, literature and languages we have unique opportunities to see the world through the eyes of others who have different cultural, social and ethical backgrounds. In so doing, we gain a better appreciation of diversity and ambiguity.

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Humanities and arts (H&A) enrollments have declined over the past decade at Stanford and at our peer institutions. At Stanford, the decline in course enrollments in H&A departments has totaled 10 percent over 10 years, while the number of majors has declined 28 percent. Do these trends matter? Why?

The goal of a Stanford undergraduate education should be to prepare our graduates for fulfilling professional, civic and personal lives. The humanities and arts are essential to all three. For professional (and especially managerial) careers, reading great literature enhances the imagination and develops a more sophisticated “theory of mind” that improves interpersonal skills. Courses in literature, history and philosophy hone analytical and writing abilities, which are sought out by medical, law and business schools in their admissions.

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We open this week’s op-ed series — “The Humanities in the 21st Century” — with two very distinguished thinkers: Dean Saller of the School of Humanities and Sciences and Dean Minor of the School of Medicine. As the week goes on, we will feature op-eds from other prominent members of the Stanford community, both faculty and students, as we seek to learn more about the future of the humanities at Stanford. I welcome you as well, as this is an inclusive project: If you would like to contribute, we would love to have you. Contributions from the community are, after all, what this series is about.