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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. And that alone will unleash critical thinking and innovation.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Sapiens

But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. To start, this means insisting that a scholar’s work is more than their social media presence. Everyone was enthusiastic to do so.

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Colleges rebrand humanities majors as job-friendly 

The Hechinger Report

Its making clear that the skills of engineers and computer scientists increase if you include the arts, the humanities, the social sciences. The superpowers of the future emanate from the humanities: introspection and imagination, storytelling and story-listening, critical thinking. Its a question weve ignored.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.