{"302191":{"#nid":"302191","#data":{"type":"news","title":"IAC Featured in Polish Newspaper as Example of How Liberal Arts Grads Can Be Prepared with Marketable Job Skills","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn article in Polish national daily publication Gazeta Wyborcza featured the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E (LMC) and \u003Cstrong\u003EIvan Allen College\u003C\/strong\u003E as a positive example of how the liberal arts can be successfully mixed with the technical sciences to endow students with marketable job skills and the promise of a decent salary. The role and value of higher education in liberal arts are major topics of discussion in Poland, as humanities are currently depreciated and undervalued.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe article\u2019s author, Piotr Toczyski of the Polish Academy of Sciences, introduces a report on wages of Polish alumni, comparing the minimum and maximum wages of graduates from technical and non-technical universities, along with an argument against the claim that only a technical education can provide a substantial salary. He suggests that American technical universities like Georgia Tech are becoming more interested in liberal arts and refers to the appointment of professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/utz\u0022\u003ERichard Utz\u003C\/a\u003E as chair of LMC as an indication of Georgia Tech\u2019s own rising interest in a liberal arts education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToczyski quotes a section of Utz\u2019s comments on the School\u2019s mission and program that identify his interest in building bridges between the technical sciences and liberal arts, saying that this is the only answer to the complex social and cultural challenges of the future. He notes the School\u2019s willingness and interest in building creative and interdisciplinary collaboration with other disciples at Georgia Tech as a positive force in the academic community and one to be replicated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead a translated \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/files\/wysiwyg\/Georgia-Tech-Gazeta-Wyborcza.pdf\u0022\u003Eexcerpt in English\u003C\/a\u003E or the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wyborcza.pl\/1,87648,15514637,Co_studiowac__aby_byc_madrym_i_bogatym__Na_Zachodzie.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eoriginal artical in Polish.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn article in Polish national daily publication Gazeta Wyborcza featured the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E (LMC) and \u003Cstrong\u003EIvan Allen College\u003C\/strong\u003E as a positive example of how the liberal arts can be successfully mixed with the technical sciences to endow students with marketable job skills and the promise of a decent salary.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"An article in Polish national daily publication Gazeta Wyborcza featured the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) and Ivan Allen College as a positive example of how the liberal arts can be successfully mixed with the technical scienc"}],"uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2014-06-09 12:32:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:33","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"302181":{"id":"302181","type":"image","title":"Gazeta Wyborcza","body":null,"created":"1449244592","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:56:32","changed":"1475895007","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:07","alt":"Gazeta Wyborcza","file":{"fid":"199577","name":"gazeta_wyborcza.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gazeta_wyborcza_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gazeta_wyborcza_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":68639,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gazeta_wyborcza_0.jpg?itok=EPgvfFnq"}}},"media_ids":["302181"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"950","name":"liberal arts"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}