Business may be the most popular major in the country, but employers complain that recent college graduates do not possess critical thinking and communication skills — skills that a recent NPR article notes can be developed through liberal arts courses.
Kendy Hess, the Brake-Smith Associate Professor in Social Philosophy and Ethics in the philosophy department at the College of the Holy Cross, offers insight into the benefits found when business and a liberal arts education intersect.
“At a time when all colleges are under pressure to launch their graduates into productive careers, business has a lot to offer the liberal arts, too,” Hess shared with NPR. “At the very least, internships and experiences and a chance to take all of this knowledge and information and understanding and dialogue, and try to use it.”
Read the full article on ualrpublicradio.org.