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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

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. in history. “I He also leads work at Humanities Indicators and holds a Ph.D.

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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 institution has a storied history. history survey course to be delivered in the summer.

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Which Side Are You On?

Inside Higher Ed

Labor activism has surged at universities since 2013, adding about 120 new faculty chapters. Perhaps most striking is the formation of 16 graduate student unions and a dozen for postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers between 2013 and 2019—a trend that has persisted since the pandemic struck. Academia is a calling.

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A Brief History: Black Americans in Higher Education

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. at an American university. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.

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Technology Partnerships and Higher Education

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

As Mainstay, they still empower people to take the next step toward achieving their goals in both academia and business. Drew earned an AB in History and Literature from Harvard in 2005, and served as a board member for Cambridge School Volunteers from 2011-2013.

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A Brief History: Black Americans in Higher Education

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 9 minutes Black History includes success stories of numerous Blacks who have contributed to the progress made in higher education. Throughout history, Black Americans have endured a long, tedious journey in achieving educational opportunities. at an American university. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

In early 2013 we hoped that good sense might yet prevail: HEFCE still might, as the Government White Paper suggested, take the lead among the various sector regulatory bodies such as QAA and OIA, all having set their face against the super-merger to create a super-regulator hypothesised but not thought through by the Browne Review.