Initially, I surveyed the situation from the safe distance of a journalist who happens to also be a career professor and university administrator. I saw myself as an envoy between America’s college ...
In an AI-driven world, an education focused on gaining uniquely human knowledge and skills is the key to future success. Why AI Makes the Liberal Arts Invaluable It may seem counterintuitive, but in a ...
Andy Kessler is right that our educational system is failing to prepare students in the age of artificial intelligence (“Is AI Making Us Dumb?,” Inside View, Dec. 8). But the solution isn’t to embed ...
Miriam Grodin from Livingston, N.J., is a junior at Brandeis University, majoring in English and creative writing. She hopes to be an editor someday. “I love to read. I love to write,” she said. “I ...
After eight years on Smith’s board of trustees, Susan May Molineaux ’75 in July rose to a new role as board chair. Molineaux has enjoyed a storied career as a cancer researcher and innovator in drug ...
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. On a Thursday this fall, hundreds of students at the ...
In a recent opinion piece, The Boston Globe recognized Brandeis’ efforts to combine a rigorous liberal arts foundation with new approaches that prepare students for meaningful careers. The editorial ...
That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...
The Federal Government has announced that Mathematics will no longer be a compulsory subject for students seeking admission into tertiary institutions to study Arts and Humanities-related courses. The ...
Khadija T. Khan ’28, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Philosophy concentrator in Currier House. I spent most of freshman year completely unaware that Harvard was a liberal arts institution. A liberal ...
Out of all the liberal arts schools in the country, Williams College in Massachusetts took first place, according to the 2026 U.S. News and World Report national liberal arts rankings. Following close ...
Brandeis University President Arthur Levine this week laid out a vision to reimagine what a liberal arts education can be by strengthening the connection between the durable skills it teaches and the ...