Witness the ethereal elegance of Geometry in this enchanting engraving! She embodies the essence of the liberal arts, merging beauty with precision. How does the personification of abstract concepts influence our understanding of knowledge?

#ClevelandArt #ArtHistory #LiberalArts
https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.432.24

"The hottest job in tech: Writing words
The rise of slopaganda is fueling a surprising tech hiring boom."

It's all very fine and well, but you do need some time to research, think, structure your thought and, essentially, tell a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. I find it very difficult in this media and work environment, where AI has accelerated absolutely everything, that this trend will persist more than one year or two...

"As the job changes and demand for narrative communications and storytellers rises, the number of communications experts able to work under rapidly evolving conditions and with a wide remit may be small, comms experts tell me, leading companies to offer hefty compensation packages in war for the best talent. A similar trend is unfolding among the few people who are AI experts, driving tech companies to offer astounding salaries to poach top talent from rival firms. While not of the same nine-figure caliber, in their own right, creatives are becoming "the high value person in tech now," Birch says.

For much of the tech boom, that high-value person was a software developer. Universities and coding bootcamps rushed to fill employment gaps and train up the next generation of tech workers. Young people were told coding would be a path to a lucrative, stable career. As of 2023, the most recent year the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released data for, computer science recent graduates faced an unemployment rate of 6.1%, while communications majors' unemployment rate sat at 4.5%. The number of open job posts for software engineers dropped by more than 60,000 between 2023 and late 2025, according to data from CompTIA, a nonprofit trade association for the US IT industry. The best defense against automation, some argue, will be a liberal arts degree.

Words might be easy to generate with AI, but good writing isn't ready for automation."

https://www.businessinsider.com/hottest-job-in-tech-writing-words-ai-hiring-2026-2

#AI #AISlop #Chatbots #LLMs #Writing #LiberalArts

> ‘Just not monetizable’: humanities programs face existential crisis at US universities
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/universities-humanities-programs

FTA: "I coordinated this demonstration because I have dreams that cannot be monetized. I have a problem with our society that cannot be solved with an algorithm. I have words to write and say that cannot be generated artificially.”

#academia #HigherEd #ThisIsAmerica #priorities #humanities #LiberalArts

Speaking as a retired chemist, this is absolutely essential to help maintain California's strength in science and engineering.

On the other hand , the most valuable parts of my education (as opposed to training) came from the humanities. Yet we don't seem to recognize how important and central that non-STEM segment is. Why not?

Wiener pitches $23B ‘science bond’ to backfill Trump research cuts
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/16/wiener-23-billion-science-bond-federal-cuts/

#STEM & #LiberalArts are both important to a good #Education

Uni comms people did a nice write-up on the teaching experiment I launched last fall with a life-long friend. #history #histodons #justice #highered #liberalarts

https://www.colgate.edu/news/stories/lifelong-friendship-leads-unique-academic-collaboration

For those of you who work in higher ed, are you also finding Season 2 of The Man on the Inside a bit too on point?

#manontheinside
#liberalarts

Hivemind:

I am looking for suitable reading on data for a second-year undergraduate module called "Liberal Arts and the Public Sphere". Any recommendations for monographs or essays on critical data literacy or the importance of data to the political economy are gratefully received. The students do not necessarily have advanced numeracy or statistical skills, so the reading must be fairly accessible.

#HE #teaching #liberalarts #humanities #data

Hype for the Future 42/284: Locations of the Six Colleges

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/hype-for-the-future-42-284-locations-of-the-six-colleges/