Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. in economics as it does in humanities fields in most American universities?
University Business
APRIL 29, 2024
Wage premiums associated with earning an undergraduate degree declined precipitously following the Great Recession in 2008. Despite the enrollment decline that followed, undergrad enrollment and degree completion in majors such as computer science, engineering and health have increased substantially. .”
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Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.
Faculty Focus
APRIL 11, 2023
A person with a growth mindset views one’s position, intelligence, talents, and abilities as being controllable and learnable; a person with a fixed mindset views such traits as being unchangeable (Dweck 2008). As humans, we all crave validation, and formative assessments provide such insight on students’ understandings of concepts.
Faculty Focus
APRIL 11, 2023
A person with a growth mindset views one’s position, intelligence, talents, and abilities as being controllable and learnable; a person with a fixed mindset views such traits as being unchangeable (Dweck 2008). As humans, we all crave validation, and formative assessments provide such insight on students’ understandings of concepts.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. They announced plans this fall to help 30 liberal arts colleges explore how to start programs modeled after Exploring Transfer, a 35-year-old summer bridge program for community college students at Vassar.
ACRLog
AUGUST 11, 2022
Benjamin Dueck is a General Librarian in the Arts & Humanities Division at The University of Manitoba Libraries. Earlier this month, I began working as a full-time Humanities Liaison Librarian at the University of Manitoba. The future of humanities librarianship.
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