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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Following his and others’ departures, he said, just one full-time professor will remain in his department.

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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

Inside Higher Ed

“We’re not just marching through the archives,” said Blackwood, who chairs the English department at Pace. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Journal of Public Health defines public health as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.” The pandemic has brought increased awareness of healthcare disparities.

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New course teaches skills for tackling mental distress

Inside Higher Ed

But this isn’t an art class; the students will be illustrating their moods as part of a new one-credit course at the University of Maryland, College Park, that Morgan developed to teach students basic emotional regulation skills. The images they produce might run the gamut from abstract doodles to colorful narrative scenes.

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Higher ed policies drive layoffs and cuts in the UK, Australia and Canada

The PIE News

Cuts of the scale being threatened at universities including Goldsmiths, Lincoln and Sheffield Hallam will devastate local economies and cause long-term harm to key British industries like the creative arts.

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

Creative arts (CA-HE), often deemed less valuable than STEM subjects, are particularly threatened ( Puffett 2022 , Redmond 2020 ), evidenced in the closure of departments, and exacerbating the already tense relationship between the CA-HE and HE ( Elkins 2009 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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How U.S. Colleges and Universities are Responding to Declining Enrollments

WCET Frontiers

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut.