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A practical education : why liberal arts majors make great employees /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stross, Randall E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Redwood Press, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Stanford University > Alumni and alumnae > Employment.
Education, Humanistic > United States.
College graduates > Employment > United States.
Employee selection > United States.
College majors > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The major decision
  • The new education
  • Naturally curious
  • Proper proportion
  • A foot in the door
  • Engineering success
  • The different perspective
  • A general understanding
  • Underrepresented
  • Normal
  • Interesting things happen
  • A mania for testing
  • The strength of weak ties
  • The shiny new thing
  • First gen
  • The art of living
  • Bilingual
  • A history of the future
  • Do-over
  • Liberal education is vocational.