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Is the humanities field ‘endangered’?

University Business

In the 2020-21 school year, Humanities majors experienced a drop in graduate percentage across the United States. The amount of bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has been steadily decreasing by the tens of thousands since 2010, which is the most the field has ever lost. The post Is the humanities field ‘endangered’?

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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

” What he cites is not scientific and excludes basic humanity and context, the fundamentals of the historical human sciences. There is a significant literature from the 1930s on of which Newman, Heller, and too many humanities professors seem unaware. Illogically, we remained isolationist and separatist.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

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.

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. He also leads work at Humanities Indicators and holds a Ph.D.

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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

University Business

Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. Colleges and universities hailing from both sides of the fence are inching ever closer to the middle, integrating lessons in the humanities with STEM-based curriculum—and vice versa. But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education.

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Historic Faculty Strike Disrupts California State University System

Insight Into Diversity

Last week, Leora Freedman, vice chancellor for human resources at CSU, stated that the university system had to withdraw from the negotiation process due to the union’s refusal to compromise. “We Meanwhile, CSU reached a tentative agreement last week with another union, Teamsters Local 2010, representing over 1,000 skilled trade workers.

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Doctoral recipients by bachelor's degree-granting institution, 2016-2020

Higher Ed Data Stories

It's the NSF, so they break degrees in science down farther than they do humanities degrees. You can't really, because someone who received a doctorate in 2018 might have graduated from college in 2000 or 2010. Yes, you can add gender and ethnicity, but not when looking at origin college. This is what we have.

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