Liberal arts degree has become tech’s hottest ticket
UVic alumnus Stewart Butterfield (CEO of Slack Technologies and co-founder of Flickr), a past recipient of the UVic Distinguished Alumni Award, is an exemplar of the liberal arts degree, according to Forbes magazine. In a feature story (available now online) for the magazine's Aug. 17 issue, Butterfield describes exactly how "studying philosophy" and the liberal arts has become the tech industry's hot ticket to corporate success. Forbes