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A liberal art or science university or college encourages students to study a wide range of courses and programs that develop them into all-rounded graduates. Such a higher education aims to train critical thinkers with developed ethical, moral, environmental, and community awareness. It is contrary to the specialized form of education that seeks to graduate individuals who will just fill particular job positions.
It is not accurate that students in liberal arts schools do not specialize. These schools expect students to concentrate in a particular field after the first two years of exploring different areas of interest. Even some STEM programs expect students to study core subjects plus other courses in subjects of their choosing. So, students will not be a jack of all trade but those who have a career as well as appreciate other professions.
The simple answer to this question is do not do programs or courses that only focus on soft skills without any STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects. Most liberal arts schools allow students to carve such a degree.
Every student! With the world moving to discuss the ethical, moral, environmental, and societal impact of services and products, core competency in an area is coupled with other skills. Companies will prefer to have an employee who can think outside the box, develop new ideas, and have basic communication skills.
AFEX in our 11-year history has had a number of students who went through such education and they are well-positioned in various jobs. Check out our alumni page: WHERE ARE THEY NOW
Mr. Martin Yeboah is a product of Amherst College Massachusetts with a degree in Economics and MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a strong advocate of developing and nurturing the youth with entrepreneurial spirit.
He has worked in structured and unstructured business environments and by so doing has gathered experience and insights from the corporate world and what it takes to be a game-changing entrepreneur. Mr. Yeboah’s experience spans from finance through marketing to strategy. His skills and talent have touched “fortune 500” companies across the globe: United Technology, AT&T, DEC, USA, US African Development Foundation. As the Group Team Leader at USADF, Ghana he spearheaded the transformation and market-linked many SMEs in Ghana – believes that SMEs must be supported not only through financial props but technical injections to drive economic growth.
He later became the Supply Chain and Facilities Manager for the first Upstream Oil and Gas Company in Ghana, Kosmos Energy, based in Dallas, Texas.
He spent solid 20 years of his life bringing top-notch students and professionals from the US to Africa. Students from Harvard Business and Medical Schools, Columbia Business, UMich, Kellogg School, MIT, the Wharton School, Yale, Duke Fuqua, Cornell, Cal Berkeley to countries like South Africa, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe. The professional groups are National Bar Association, National Nurses Association, The Black Executive Agency of NYC, Churches, Social Workers and many professional groups from North America. Martin always looks for opportunities that could spark and hone developmental thinking in Africa.
He organized the First Homecoming Summit for Ghana in 2000 followed by the Sierra Leone Homecoming in 2003 in Freetown. Presently, he is creating a platform that will link and network entire African professionals. He has also a chain of businesses spanning from Education, Food & Hospitality, among others.