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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

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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The Robbins Review – Lessons for the Future by Professor Huw Morris

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This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review. As others have shown in the recent past, not least Nick Hillman in his article on the Anderson Report in 1960, many parts of this expansion were already in train (Hillman, 2013).

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Study finds true faculty diversity is possible by 2050

Inside Higher Ed

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. percentage points each year on average between 2013 and 2020. ” Accounting for time to tenure, the researchers estimate that between 2013 and 2020, 45,309 Ph.D.s

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The first refers to the course of studies in medieval universities comprising the trivium—the three arts of the humanities (grammar, logic and rhetoric), and the quadrivium (arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and music). Merriam-Webster’s dictionary gives two definitions of the liberal arts. Disable left side advertisement?:

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Leicester – A super diverse-city

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A new age of ‘super diversity’ and ‘minority majority’ cities proclaimed The Guardian, as it cited Leicester in an article about the 2021 Census data. As we strive to create a more fair and humane society, the values of compassion, of justice, and inclusion enrich our University and mark our commitment to create a better world. .