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

Higher Ed Data Stories

It shows all doctoral recipients (in 2016-2020) broken out by where they received their bachelor's degrees. It's the NSF, so they break degrees in science down farther than they do humanities degrees. Each time I publish this visualization I get a lot of traffic on the site, and I can see why. This is what we have.

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Humane Ingenuity 40: In Sight

Dan Cohen

Human sight is not even close to a representation of the world around us, with the eye like the megapixel sensor at the heart of a digital camera. For those new to Humane Ingenuity , that means that you can now access back issues on my own domain, and that’s also where you can subscribe (as always, for free) to the newsletter.

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Minnesota Catholic colleges cut languages, other humanities

Inside Higher Ed

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.

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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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What’s Higher Education’s Role in Teaching Soft Skills

MindMax

To what extent will artificial intelligence (AI) replace human workers? I certainly don’t have the answer, but I can say one thing with confidence: Even if (or when) robots take over tasks historically assigned to people, they won’t replace the soft skills that are uniquely human.

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Opal Lee to Receive Honorary Degree

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Civil rights icon Opal Lee will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Southern Methodist University (SMU). A retired teacher and lifelong activist, Lee was 89 in 2016 when she conducted a symbolic walk from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., Gerald Turner.

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Descendants of Enslaved Offered Need-Based Scholarships through Partnership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation was born out of the 2016 discovery that in 1838, the Society of Jesus sold more than 272 enslaved men, women, and children from their plantations in Maryland to plantation owners in Louisiana to save Georgetown College from financial ruin. Dr. Harry L.