For most of my professional life, the future of the humanities was a conceptual matter. That’s no longer the case.

In the years since the Great Recession, we’ve heard much about the waning value of a liberal arts degree in today’s increasingly specialized job market. A liberal arts education is a risky choice, we’re often told, compared with safer options in business, IT and other technical fields.

DUBOIS — English students at Northeast Dubois High School got a crash course Monday on one way to apply Shakespeare to modern life.

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The Shelbyville News has added Lucy Gay to its Editorial staff as a summer intern.

Indiana State University honored eight educators during its annual Faculty Recognition Banquet Thursday evening.

Recently I was part of a dinner conversation attended by a range of leaders in the tech world, from people running incubators and accelerators to ad agencies and design studios. The guest list included representatives from Facebook, Grand Central Tech, BetaWorks, IDEO, and Ipsos.

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Recently, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said that he believed in the value of college, but mostly for math-based majors like engineering, rather than "softer stuff," like English.

By JACK LINSHI 
July 23, 2015