Katherine S. Brooks, director of Liberal Arts Career Services at the University of Texas at Austin, names a cause of the “decline” in the liberal arts:
Unfortunately, many liberal-arts colleges generally are not doing enough to help their students connect to the job market—and unfortunately some don’t want to or don’t see career preparation as their responsibility.
Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.
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