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Professor Benes Participates in National AHA Initiative
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 Professor Carrie Benes will represent New College of Florida among 60 colleges and universities selected nationwide to participate in the American Historical Association's (AHA) three-year initiative to "tune the history major." Benes, who traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the project's first meeting in June, said the goals are to develop national guidelines to ensure college history students are learning critical skills needed for success in graduate school and the workforce. "Employers say they're looking for people who can think critically, write, communicate and analyze different kinds of information," Benes said. "As a discipline, we haven't been very good at articulating that the study of history provides these skills. We also need to help our students be able to communicate these skills in a job interview. For example, New College is good at producing students who can think critically and solve problems because they have to complete a senior thesis to graduate." Read More
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