An Entrepreneurship Minor for Liberal Arts Majors: Communicating the Basics of Accounting and Finance

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary E. Porter ◽  
John C Soper
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts Majors

Success beyond STEM: an analysis of educational background of the Fortune 50 CEOs

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Welch
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
College Education ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Stem Majors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Undergraduate Major ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Liberal Arts Majors

PurposeThe purpose of this article is examine some of the most successful contemporary global business leaders in relation to undergraduate institution and undergraduate major in order to examine the value and return of higher education programs for global business leadership. This is an important topic in the modern global context, as there continues to be an increasing global push toward deemphasizing and defunding liberal arts education in favor of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields for college and university students around the globe.Design/methodology/approachThe educational backgrounds of the 2019 Fortune 50 CEOs were researched in relation to undergraduate institutions attended and undergraduate majors. The study also included an examination of graduate education, if applicable. Using available biographical information regarding the CEOs educational backgrounds, these business leaders were compared relative to the educational data.FindingsAn examination of the undergraduate educational backgrounds of the 2019 Fortune 50 CEOs revealed an exact split between 18 STEM majors, 18 liberal arts majors and 18 business majors, with 1 CEO who began university studies but did not graduate. Upon examination, it is also apparent that some majors were more directly related to a CEO's industry, while other majors ended up having little relation to the CEO's chosen career path.Practical implicationsThe results of this study contribute to the very important discussion concerning the long-term value of a college education. At both micro and macro levels, stakeholders are constantly questioning the ultimate return on investment of a college education, and examination of the 2019 Fortune 50 CEOs indicates that the choice of college major is only one ingredient in the overall recipe for professional success. For these business leaders, there were a wide variety of educational paths, in terms of college academic preparations, that eventually led to the very pinnacle of professional and leadership attainment.Originality/valueThis study demonstrates that a particular undergraduate field of study is not going to make or break a career, and the examination of these Fortune 50 CEOs indicates that one's ultimate career achievement is not simply relegated to the specific field of undergraduate major.

Innovative Math For Liberal Arts Majors

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Strasser
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Statistical Reasoning ◽  
Course Changes ◽  
Liberal Arts Students ◽  
Liberal Arts Majors

An innovative Math for Liberal Arts course was designed to provide liberal arts students with the life skills necessary to survive in the 21st century. The course emphasizes application driven mathematics. This course has been successful in changing students perceptions of the usefulness of the course and improving student success rate as well as actively engaging them in the study of mathematics. Topics such as critical thinking, unit analysis, statistical reasoning, and managing money are included. Students spend time analyzing a budget as well as learning about the stock market and the mathematics associated with each. Students who took this course were far more likely than those who took the more traditional survey type of course to rate the course as being important. The course changes are delineated and the students responses to those changes are described.

scholarly journals Moral Judgment Differences in Education and Liberal Arts Majors: Cause for Concern?

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
W Pitt Derryberry ◽  
Hannah Snyder ◽  
Travis Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts Majors

Rethinking Liberal Arts Skills in the New Economy

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Gibbs Knotts
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Literature Overview ◽  
Liberal Arts Majors

Liberal arts graduates can compete effectively for jobs in the current information-based economy. The literature overview of liberal arts advising is presented as is a discussion on the student skills needed for success in the new economy. Strategies advisors can use to help liberal arts majors develop new economy skills and specific suggestions for helping advisees market these skills to potential employers are presented.

scholarly journals Historical Research Techniques: Teaching with Database Exercises on the Microcomputer

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon Burton ◽  
Robert Blomeyer ◽  
Atsushi Fukada ◽  
Steven J. White
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Computer Users ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Liberal Arts Majors

Critical analysis is the basis of the liberal arts education, and computer analysis is so much a part of contemporary society that liberal arts majors need to learn to assess the veracity of computer-derived information just as they do the sources for a historical monograph. It is increasingly clear that humanists should acquire basic understandings of the use of the computer. Jobs for traditionally trained liberal arts majors are scarce, and computer skills will make history graduates more competitive in the job market. We are not necessarily suggesting that all historians understand “computerese,” or the way some computer users talk to one another. What is important for the historian, or for any humanistic scholar for that matter, is the ability to understand the algorithm, or in the language of the humanist, the logic of how a computer program operates to produce output. This is also essential if scholars in the humanities are to be able to understand and evaluate the new social science research.

scholarly journals Math Course for Liberal Arts Majors: A Pilot with Embedded Remediation

Numeracy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Perez ◽  
◽  
Hansun To ◽  
Mary Fowler ◽  
Linda Larrivee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts Majors
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