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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. Of these 634 jobs, 358 were on the tenure track, an increase from both 2020–21 and 2019–20. in 2019 and 2020, based on federal data.

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

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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 institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

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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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Native American Studies Programs Struggle to Recover from COVID-19 Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

years from 2019 to 2021. There is a whole history of disparity there, health disparities even prior to the pandemic. Home computers and internet service were nonexistent for many students in the department. UNM expects to have the fourth Native American or Indigenous studies department in the nation with a Ph.D.

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Which Side Are You On?

Inside Higher Ed

Perhaps most striking is the formation of 16 graduate student unions and a dozen for postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers between 2013 and 2019—a trend that has persisted since the pandemic struck. programs, especially in the humanities, are likely to shrink, irrespective of unionization. I suspect that Ph.D.

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Black Youth Mental Health: Understanding and Being Culturally Responsive to Promote Homeplace and Black Joy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Mandy K. Homeplace, as bell hooks (1990) describes, is a sanctuary space that is humanizing , loving, and full of grace. Mims is an Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University Dr. Paul C.

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Alphabet Soup

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AAHEA – American Association for Higher Education and Accreditation – Founded in 1870, this was originally the “Department of Higher Education” of the NEA (National Education Association). Some of the nation’s best colleges get failing grades for not requiring coursework in specific departments. Department of Education.