The Huffington Post – Linda Katehi
“Along with other educators and business leaders, I have long been stressing the importance of outstanding university programs in the STEM disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math. We’ve done so because with our economy increasingly driven by technology and information, we don’t want to see America lose ground to other nations in scientific and technical expertise. This will always be important. But I have also come to believe that liberal arts, which can be downplayed sometimes with all the focus on STEM, need to be a cornerstone of the education students receive as they prepare to build futures for themselves and for America…our future rests on how successful we are in getting technology and humans to interact in ways that benefit our planet and everyone who lives on it. For that, as Zakaria and others have noted, we need greater creativity, aesthetic sensibility, social, political and psychological insights. Which is another way of saying, more liberal arts.”(more)