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Job Market for History Professors ‘Lethargic but Stable’

Inside Higher Ed

Employment data for the 2022–23 academic year confirm that the hiring of college history professors since 2016 has been “lethargic but stable,” according to a recent report from the American Historical Association Career Center.

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History hiring in the pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: In 2020–21, history faculty job postings hit their lowest point since the American Historical Association started tracking openings in 1975, at just 347 positions total. H-Net, another popular job listing site, showed a similar year-over-year increase, with 670 jobs in history and area studies for 2021–22.

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Undergraduate institutions of doctoral recipients

Higher Ed Data Stories

It shows the undergraduate college of people who received doctorates in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022. Or, the institution in the Middle Atlantic states sending the most students to a doctorate in History (Columbia.) in Chemistry (Hope College).

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Educational Institutions Play Vital Role in Teaching American Public

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people. It’s a history that must be told and folks are doing it—but Dunn does it at a risk to himself and the people he teaches.” in September 2016.

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Art Institutes Close. Students May Be Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness.

Higher Education Inquirer

The Art Institutes chain had a storied history, starting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1921 and growing to 50 locations by 2010. Unlike Corinthian Colleges (2015), ITT Tech (2016), Westwood College (2016), and Virginia College (2018), the Art Institutes survived with government assistance--but with less than ten campuses.

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Diddy Delivers $1M to Jackson State Football

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He had previously given $1 million to Howard in 2016 to establish a scholarship fund and had said that he would donate a further $1 million to the school in the same acceptance speech. Combs added that HBCUs are “under-resourced” and that he was “here to do something about it.”

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Film About the Abuse of People of Color Becomes a Teaching Tool

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was July 2016, and the list of Black men and women killed by police had grown by two names in just two days. By examining history with a criminal law book at hand, Webb found evidence to charge the U.S. The 3E Program aims to teach unfiltered American history by combining ethics, empathy, and empowerment, the three Es.

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