Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 16, 2023
Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. percent from 2016 to 2020—the largest drop since it began its survey in 1958. percent,” the association wrote.
Deans for Impact
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
In an education industry often defined by promises of quick fixes to thorny problems, Benjamin consistently focused attention on enduring truths: that teaching is a human craft of both art and science; that learning is a social activity; and that the deeply complex work of teaching and learning is worthy, then, of great reverence and inquiry.
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Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. These increases are a good sign.” respectively.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
This effort is one of several seed investment programs by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS).to And another award is being co-funded by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) on top of the seed investment – a total of $40,000 over two years.
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 4, 2023
” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 28, 2022
This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.
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