The Millennials Speak serves as a Think Tank for, by, and about the current generation of young adults entering college and the workplace. This project is designed to reclaim the Arts and Humanities for the Future with the added importance of speaking for and through the Millennials, not âtoâ the Millennials. In other words, as higher education is determining how to meet the demands of 21st century world challenges, we must ask ourselves how our approach to the advocacy of the humanities must change in the face of our audience.
The Millennials are more interested in developing ideas that are participatory, collaborative, multimedia and that can cross platforms. As such, this site page serves to bring together students and young professionals from around the world to develop advocacy material that speaks to their interests and ways of doing things.
Articles
Call for Papers: Extraordinary and Transformative Partnerships with the Arts & Humanities
What Crisis?: How Extraordinary Partnerships with the Arts and Humanities are Transforming the Way We Think, Work, and Live Jenny Gottstein, the Director of Games at The GoGame, a company that builds interactive experiences and high-tech…
The Impact of a Degree in Women and Gender Studies: A Student Perspective
Milinda Ajawara is a NY6 Think Tank “Next Generation” humanities contributor who worked on a project that focused on Women’s Studies (also known as Women’s and Gender Studies). Her project consisted of a series of interviews with Hamilton…
Wanna Become A Cook?: Eat Your Words!
Eat Your Words! is a New York 6 Think Tank Project of Tessa Jane “Flash” Kalinosky, with help from Professor Beck Krefting, Professor Dan Nathan, and Photographer Liv Anderson (and friends who eat the food she make). Tessa…
Whatâs Your Major? Exploring the Arts and Humanities ~ a student-run workshop
This past week, I hosted an event called, âWhatâs Your Major? Exploring the Arts and Humanities.â Originally, I had planned to host an alumni panel event at Union and invite students to come and hear from successful graduates…
“Dance Gets Me Into School”
To the teachers, the parents, the government: expand your definition of what is possible for the children you know. Let them make their own decisions, let them be inspired and…
“Employed Arts & Humanities Majors: They Exist!”
NY6 Think Tank Student Fellow, Emily Wong, speaks to an entire generation through her new blog titled “Pathways to Employment: Employed Arts & Humanities Majors: They Exist!” This is the goal of her blog: “….to quell my own…
Profit over People
As stated by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, âWe do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.â This quote shows that we do not act in an…
Post Your Instagram Inspiration!
Follow, contribute and post your photography/art and your expression of why the arts and humanities are important to you! Go to your Instagram account, and follow NY6ThinkTank
Classics and Philosophy: Tools for Learning and Thinking About Anything I Could Ever Possibly Want To Do
As a New York Six Think Tank Fellow, my project focused on exploring the connection between an education in the arts and/or humanities and success outside of academia. Prior to beginning my project, I had seen for myself…
Morning, May the Odds Forever Be in Your Favor!
When youâre being sucked upward 38 floors in a high rise Manhattan, NY office by an oak wood decorated elevator you obtain this feeling that youâre moving up in the world and that you will soon accomplish great…
âThe Essay of Theseusâ: The Ethical Limitations of Editing
The ship of Theseus, dating back to the days of Heraclites, Socrates and Plato, is a thought experiment that goes something as follows: if a ship were to gradually decay, and were to thus require that each part…
Health, Humanities, and Medicine: A Student’s Journey
Why is the threesome of the HHM important? Growing up, one of the first words I remembering uttering was âhypertension,â as my father (the MD, PhD) had plenty scientific journals laying around the house. From a very young…
Biology & Philosophy: How Our Culture Shapes Our Knowledge
Originally posted posted on April 23, 2015 on “Arts and Humanities Connection.” Science differs from arts and literature, in that the knowledge gathered would exist whether humans studied it or not. Paintings, music, and novels require artists. DNA…
Creative Computers: What the Overlap of Programming and Poetry Teaches us about Creativity
Writing programs in Python requires the sort of precision most of my writing doesnât demand. A missing letter, an extra comma, or a poorly arranged phrase are more than just confusing; the smallest spelling mistake will stop the…
NY6Think Tank Fellow Launches Exciting Instagram Project
Student Fellow, Miri Reinhold (Colgate University) has launched her new Instagram feed for her project titled “Humans of the Humanities.” Mission: “Think the humanities aren’t a practical academic pursuit? Think you’ll get nowhere with a degree in arts…
The Impact of the Arts and Humanities on Americaâs Future Workforce
The world that we live in today is changing and if you were to ask Roberta Matuson, a Forbes contributing writer, the worldâs workforce it about to change as well. In her article, âLiberal Arts Graduates: The Future…
Finding Ethics In a Small Liberal Arts School
The bonds of kinship which unite the human race are those which lead to ethical decision making. While this may be a strong assertion to make up front, I beg you to consider the bonds that are…
The Art World the Millennial Way
Food for Thought: What Does “Service” and “Leadership” Mean to You?
Pursuing a New Perspective in Medicine
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table