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davidcayjohnston.bsky.social
RIT's Fim School is recognized by The Wrap as one of the best, yet anointer reason to send your kids or grandkids to Rochester Institute of Technology for a cutting edge STEM education while being immersed in the liberal arts that make for successful careers.

www.rit.edu/news/thewrap...
‘TheWrap’ recognizes RIT as one of the nation’s top film schools
‘TheWrap’ named RIT among the best film schools in the U.S. Successful alumni and fusing technology and the arts set RIT apart from other top schools.
www.rit.edu
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
eggmansasshole.bsky.social
Everyone who says "we need more arts in STEM" is inevitably a prime example of why we desperately need the inverse
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
bajablastoise.bsky.social
The "I am the Captain now" meme, but the guy taking over is titled "arts degrees"; the meme text says "Look at me, I am the STEM degree now."
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
caseinmicelles.bsky.social
Being a liberal arts person in a family of STEM people was ROUGH. I double majored in three years to attempt to prove something (who knows what at this point), and my software engineer brother told me, "I know you're bad at math, but 2 x 0 is still 0" at a family dinner.
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
snarkyrobot.bsky.social
Are you a programmer trying to come up with a company that can reach the same valuation as Torment Nexus Incorporated, but interesting ideas aren’t your strong suit?

Check out Black Mirror, a story written by liberal arts majors to warn society about STEM nerds like you.
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
sorbriquette.bsky.social
AI may do the impossible and unite people in the arts and people in STEM because lbr
Prompt 'engineers' are engineers in the same way that AI 'artists' are artists
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
jennanewman.bsky.social
“Enrollment in majors dominated by men declines…The shift out of [STEM] is consistent w/students being willing to accept a compensating differential [anticipated safety] for lower pay. The shift out of arts implies that students are also willing to give up creative pursuits for anticipated safety.”🧪
Figure 2: Prevalence of Incidents by Major Notes: This figure shows the count of ASMD incidents by major in the institution x major analysis sample.
November 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
solarisdreamweaver.bsky.social
Also, %90 home ownership rates, with renting being 3% of yourIncome, cheap but high quality, nutritious food, arts and sciences, STEM and Ethics are mostValued, usingVolence to end violence. If you think any/all of these sound amazing… congratulations you’re a communist! Because empathy is communist
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
pbnpg.bsky.social
흑흑 너무 학과 내부사정을 많이 쓰는 것 같은데 스트레스 받아서 자꾸 쓰게 되네. 지금 진짜 상당한 위기상황인걸 체어가 좀 정신을 차려야 하는데

지금 어떤 상황이냐면...우리 학교가 약간 구성이 이상함. 그러니까 보통은 인문학은 단과대 기준으로 humanities로 하나로 묶여있는게 보통이잖아? 근데 우리는 진짜 특이하게 Arts & Science로 묶여있음. 음악, 연극 뭐 이런쪽도 묶여있고, 사과대도 묶여있고, 무엇보다 STEM과 한 몸임 ㅠㅠ

근데 내가 임용될 때의 딘은 문학과였어. 그래서 어드민인데 인문학 페이스를 이해함
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
nadiaoxford.bsky.social
“Girls in STEM!” “Minorities in STEM!” Oh my God shut up about STEM for five fucking seconds, I beg of you. The math nerds will find their way. If kids show interest in humanities and/or arts, for God’s sake, let them cook!!! The ‘90s shat on therapy and psychologists to everyone’s great detriment.
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
lisadiedrich.bsky.social
Yes, to watching how this story gets told/rationalized. Numbers have been used against arts & humanities programs even when enrollments are NOT cratering. My take is students right now are very savvy (at least in my classes) about the need for a mix: arts & humanities + STEM. They really want this.
thetattooedprof.bsky.social Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10d
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
But computer science is cratering. Four-year undergraduate enrollment in computer and information sciences plunged by 7.7 percent this fall — and it decreased almost twice as fast at the graduate level. The Clearinghouse data doesn’t say why, but it’s hard to ignore recent gluts of tech-company layoffs and questions about artificial intelligence taking coders’ jobs in a discipline that’s proven subject to ebbs and flows.
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
xauriel.satan.social
We are seeing in real time the result of decades of lauding people who are good at STEM as special geniuses who will change the future while telling people who are good at the arts and humanities to get a real job
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
cohodes.bsky.social
Students exit majors dominated by men, but this shift has little effect on predicted earnings because students shift away from both high- (STEM) and low-earning (arts) majors.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
topologicalspace.bsky.social
Topology is everywhere:3 even in architecture and the arts as well as stem in general
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
rpepper.bsky.social
I’ve been successful in my career not from my STEM degrees, but because they came from a liberal arts school. The humanities courses I was “forced” to take are what gave me the upward momentum.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
tippa1.bsky.social
What's interesting is looking at history the most exceptional STEM people had a combination with something from the arts or humanities. It's almost like a yin yang balance that is needed to elevate to the absolute pinnacle.
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
robertkelchen.com
I'm spending a lot of time thinking about the shift of students from lower-cost to higher-cost fields, further stretching institutional budgets (and something that often flies under the radar). Here is the trend for public research universities.
The share of bachelor's degrees at public research universities in STEM and health have increased over time, while the share in liberal arts has decreased.
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
verbaveneris.bsky.social
me when i have a really good student meeting and chat about a SUPER cool paper idea that they seem really enthusiastic about but they're in STEM because "there's no money in the arts"
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
edutopia.org
“After years of an unchanging gender division in computer science and engineering classes, the balance flipped with the addition of this new class.”

Want to get more girls involved in STEM? Try this novel approach to integrating arts and computer science. 🪡🖥️

#PBL #EduSky #STEM
Bringing Together Cosplay and Coding in High School
In this class, students learn engineering skills as well as costume design and event planning, culminating in a convention that’s open to the whole community.
edut.to
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
shannonmmiller.bsky.social
Exciting news! 🎉

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October 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
uhactually.bsky.social
It’s interesting to say the least that Ruby, a language that puts expression above all else, is Hitlerizing, while Python, a language for data nerds, is refusing to do so. Another L for the “liberal arts make you a good person unlike the evil STEM fields” crowd
October 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
uhactually.bsky.social
Tap through to this thread to see yet another example of academics (a) blaming “STEM” for their problems despite the fact that the Trump regime has declared war on science funding too and (b) apparently calling economics a STEM field as explicitly opposed to both the liberal arts and social sciences
seeshespeak.bsky.social Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 26d
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”
October 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
miriamposner.com
UC senate faculty, I know we are besieged right now, but I want to draw your attention to a wall-of-text report you likely got in your email, called the “Interim Report on UC Academic Disruption (UCAD).” Particularly this part. (Link: senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/under...)
Recommendations For the Divisional Academic Senates: • Review the Size of Graduate Student Cohorts: Coordinate decisions to resize graduate student cohorts holistically, at the campus level, rather than leaving decisions to individual programs and departments acting unilaterally. Campuses would benefit from a more coordinated and deliberate approach. It is noted that, for some programs, maintaining a viable cohort through yearly admissions cycles may not be possible. This may require shifts in both the teaching and research support provided by new graduate students as well as faculty's overall instructional commitments at the graduate level. Furthermore, there is a significant likelihood that the number of international students who have historically favored UC graduate programs may also decrease, leading to further pressures. 7 • Rethink Approaches to Faculty Recruitment: Campus departments and colleges/schools should consider placing greater emphasis on teaching professorships and joint appointments that can afford greater flexibility to academic units going forward. These positions can help sustain instruction during times of uncertainty, while allowing research-oriented faculty to maintain scholarly progress. At the same time, campuses should evaluate how expanded use of such appointments aligns with the University's research mission, expectations for Senate faculty teaching, and UC's commitment to ladder-rank faculty positions supported in whole or in part with state funds. • Review Instructional Offerings: Academic units should consider options for consolidating their instructional offerings through a variety of strategies such as increased use of relevant cross-listed courses, redesigning curricular requirements, and formal collaborations with units on other campuses to maintain the diversity of courses available to students. Overall, units, schools, and campuses should consider ways to streamline instruction while achieving financial sustainability and maintaining academic quality. • Prioritize Academic Quality and UC's Comprehensive Identity: When evaluating programs for resizing, emphasize indicators of educational quality (such as graduation rates, learning outcomes, or research output) in addition to financial efficiency. UC must strive to remain a comprehensive university offering a full spectrum of academic disciplines, including the arts, humanities, social sciences, STEM, and professional fields. Even as difficult choices are made, breadth of knowledge at UC should be preserved. This means ensuring that core disciplines are represented systemwide. • Increase the Role of Academic Program Reviews: Campuses should strengthen their program review processes for both undergraduate majors and graduate programs. Reviews should occur on a regular cycle and incorporate the new evaluation criteria (see the recommendation to the systemwide Senate below). Importantly, program discontinuation or merger should be an explicit possible outcome of reviews. Conversely, reviews should also identify programs that warrant expansion or increased investment due to high demand or ctrate٥ic ١moorancم
October 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
uhactually.bsky.social
I’m so tired of this, man. We’re dealing with an all out war on intelligence and higher education. STEM and the social sciences and the liberal arts need to all stand together instead of this absurd petty squabbling.
October 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social
Having an entire liberal arts degree has absolutely helped me in STEM.
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM