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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. “It was about prioritization,” Ice said of the program cuts.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

It conveys many unsettling truths about the academy that you might find hard to stomach. 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. ” It’s a tough read.

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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

Inside Higher Ed

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. million Andrew W.

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Using Design Thinking to Develop a Career Development Plan SWOT Analysis

Faculty Focus

More recently, design thinking has been introduced as a way for students to explore career interests, career planning, career change, and find fulfillment in their careers and lives (Evans & Burnett, 2016). The challenge of designing a career is viewed as a “wicked problem.”

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Historic faculty pay increase still beaten by inflation

Inside Higher Ed

colleges and universities provided data for about 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members, the AAUP said. The average full-time assistant professor makes about $88,600. The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources has reached broadly similar conclusions about the pay trend this academic year.

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Dr. Orlando Taylor: A Person to Emulate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As I listened to their wide-ranging conversation, about people they knew, or had known, and projects they worked on together, I was taken by the longevity of their connection to each other. For over 50 years, Orlando had a long and storied career. He honored human beings. We can’t do anything alone.

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New HBCU Medical College in NOLA Will Confront Medical Inequities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Xavier and Ochsner, who first collaborated in the 1980s at Xavier’s College of Pharmacy, began serious planning for the creation of a medical school as early as 2016, but the COVID-19 pandemic put those plans on pause. So [the COVID] experiment taught us something: when we speak about medical school, it became a factor in trust.”