Higher Education

January 30, 2024

Polymaths are protected from economic shocks

I believe this to be true, but don’t take my word for it… the National Bureau of Economic Research just published a study that found that double majoring is good for future careers and career earnings. Here’s the abstract: We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of…

January 20, 2024

Polymaths and the Communication Discipline

One of the complaints that my students hear from their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) friends is that communication is such an “easy” discipline. In the first week or two of my Communication Theory and Theory and Research classes, we pretty quickly work on refuting that notion. We talk about how even the “simplest”…