This recognition is what led to the founding of the Committee on the Arts and Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture.
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The division has led to the drastically reduced funding for arts and humanities programs.
Degrees such as medicine, law, sciences and languages deliver higher returns than arts and humanities.
With low demand and low earnings, the arts and humanities are well-represented on this list.
"The evidence for the arts and humanities has grown exponentially over the last 20 years, " she says.
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The Arts and Humanities Council funds around one in five students who apply to it, around 1000 students this year.
The most interesting finding is that students majoring in liberal-arts fields sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities do better on the C.
Meanwhile, legions of arts and humanities majors occupy the unemployment rolls.
Given to arts and humanities organizations that reach underserved youth, the award is a reminder of the meaningful role cultural activities play in the lives of our children.
They also recommend that students should study a wider range of subjects, following the example of Singapore where students who study arts or humanities must also take a maths or science subject.
It would be great to have an MBA class with a strong representation of people from the arts and humanities, but the reality is that an MBA student needs to be highly numerate.
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Yesterday afternoon in the historic State Dining Room, First Lady Michelle Obama, honorary chair of the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities, presented 15 programs from around the world with the Coming Up Taller Award.
About 18% of the academics were from the physical sciences, 21% from engineering and technology, 22% from the social sciences, 15% from clinical subjects, 13% from life sciences and 11% from the arts and humanities.
But the University and College Union (UCU) said the launch of the new college - and state funding cuts for arts, humanities and social sciences - would result in the subjects becoming the preserve of a "select few".
L.V. requires you to take two courses in English (Composition and World Literature), one course in philosophy, one course in either history or political science, courses in chemistry, mathematics, and economics, and two electives in the arts and humanities.
She also said the plan might have the unintended consequence of reducing the number of students studying science, technology, engineering and maths - the so-called STEM subjects - because students tend to get higher grades in the arts and humanities.
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The interdisciplinary centre will bring together expertise from social sciences, the arts, humanities, information science and other relevant fields and is the result of a joint collaboration between the University of Stirling, the Open University and the University of Edinburgh.
Health care, business and the STEM majors (science, technology, engineering and math) are more stable and higher paying for recent college graduates, whereas graduates of the arts, humanities and social sciences face higher unemployment rates and earn lower salaries.
It is also common for people to enroll when they are looking for a life or career change but are unsure of which direction they should take, said Terry Shtob, the director of Arts and Humanities at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
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This Northwest Cluster event was sponsored by Great Seneca Creek Elementary School PTA, Matsunaga Elementary School PTA, Kingsview Middle School PTA and Roberto Clemente Middle School PTA. The PTAs in the Northwest Cluster of Montgomery County Public Schools are also looking to pilot a curriculum on bullying prevention through the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.
Rachel is a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
With us are actors and authors, singers and sculptors, conductors, curators, collectors, civic leaders, champions of the arts and the humanities.
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On Wednesday, the President will award the 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities in a ceremony at the White House.
Washington, who plays crisis management consultant Olivia Pope on "Scandal, " serves on President Barack Obama's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
And the arts and the humanities help us through the hard times and they remind us of what make the good times worthwhile.
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The arts, the humanities, they appeal to a certain yearning that's shared by all of us -- a yearning for truth and for beauty, for connection and the simple pleasure of a good story.
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And finally, I want to thank the creator of the Kennedy Center Honors and the Co-Chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, George Stevens. (Applause.) George and his son, Michael, are still bringing this show to life after 34 years, and we are grateful to both of them.
Debra Satz, the senior associate dean for Humanities and Arts at Stanford, who teaches ethics and political philosophy, is troubled that Hennessy is handcuffed by his industry ties.
Therefore, I appeal to governments, NGOs and civil society to contribute to the improvement of our intercultural skills through the arts, sport, humanities and language learning and to enhance our diversity for the benefit of all.
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