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French schoolchildren are soon to be taught empathy. Managers are coached in how to acquire it. Strikers are blamed for lacking it. How did empathy become such a panacea?
The Minnesota Legislature is sending a plan that would provide free tuition for low-income students at Minnesota public colleges and universities to the governor's desk.
It’s the largest donation every to a Minnesota university. The new Lee & Penny Anderson Arena will house UST hockey and basketball.
University of St. Thomas interim president and former law school dean Robert Vischer has been named St. Thomas' 16th president.
fizkes/iStock via Getty Images If someone’s cat dies, you might feel sympathy for them. If someone’s cat dies just months after your cat has died, your feelings might be better described as empathetic. In other words, sympathy often refers to pity or a similar emotion that you feel for someone, while empathy more closely relates to the ability to put yourself right in someone else’s shoes. But that’s only one interpretation of the difference between the two words—and you could even argue that the way people use empathy today is basically how sympathy has been used for centuries...