The history of
liberal arts advantage

The Liberal Arts Advantage program was initiated in 2016 and has been a central part of HNAC programming since.  

Aerial photo of UNCG's Minerva Statue

“At the University of North Carolina Greensboro, we have taken the next step of improving career outcomes for our students in the humanities by implementing the Liberal Arts Advantage, a strategy that articulates the value of the humanities to students, their parents and the community,” wrote Emily J. Levine and Nicole Hall in their 2017 Inside Higher Ed article. Levine and Hall envisioned and built a program that reflected their own partnership—Levine as a UNCG faculty partner and Nicole Hall as then-director of UNCG’s Career and Professional Development (CPD).  

From its beginning, the Liberal Arts Advantage program has relied on HNAC to help connect and support partnerships between faculty and Career and Professional Development. The core of the program involves a faculty-CPD team providing an interactive workshop for humanities students. 

Past Program Leadership

Emily Levine, Associate Professor of Education and History, Stanford University 

Nicole Hall, Associate Vice President, Career and Professional Development, University of Virginia   

Frances Bottenberg, Assistant Dean, Global Honors, UNCG   

Megan Walters, Director, Career and Professional Development, UNCG 

Heather Brook Adams, Associate Professor of English and cross-appointed faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UNCG 

Program Highlights

Recognition by the National Humanities Alliance as a program of note. 

Development and implementation of online LAA modules. 

LAA Beyond the Classroom events such as alumni networking sessions and curated workshops for humanities students. 

Consistent delivery of interactive, in-person workshops to students across humanities disciplines. 

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