The headline of a recent article from Forbes:
That ‘Useless’ Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech’s Hottest Ticket
http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2015/07/29/liberal-arts-degree-tech/
This article gives several case studies of leaders in the tech industry whose liberal arts degrees have served them well, and how tech doesn’t need just people with tech degrees. One of them is the founder and CEO of slack.com, who was a philosophy major.
I heard about the article via a tweet:
Tech’s big #hiring surprise: software companies find that liberal arts thinking makes them stronger. http://t.co/8lpDkaFTlr
— M Pacansky-Brock (@brocansky) July 31, 2015
What’s a surprise to me is that this is still a surprise. Well, okay; maybe it’s not a “surprise” to me that this is so, but rather a “disappointment.” Those of us who teach and learn in the liberal arts get it already and try to make the case as much as we can. And some of our students complain about having to try to make the case to their parents. Clearly the message isn’t yet fully being received.
Or more likely, it takes the non-liberal-arts people saying it for the message to be believed.
