RafaelFajardo

The ‪humanities‬ and social sciences are an essential part of undergraduate ‪education‬. Most successful careers, including in technology and engineering, do not result simply from technical knowledge. They require leadership skills, social and emotional intelligence, cultural understanding, a capacity for strategic decision-making and a global perspective. Put another way, success in life requires a sensibility about the world and one’s place in it that the humanities seek to cultivate, as well as an understanding of economic and societal context that the social sciences provide…
We [Presidents of the University of Michigan and Stanford University] believe that the role and importance of the humanities and social sciences needs to be discussed elsewhere: at dinner tables where families talk about college and career choices and in Congress, statehouses and government agencies where funding decisions are made with an eye toward what is “useful”.