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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?

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

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Reflections on Fitzgerald and the Qatar World Cup (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. Like my courses in the United States, I engaged my Qatari students in a critical history of the United States, one that centered the history of race.

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Augmenting Your Classroom’s Reality

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History Faculty can use AR in a history class to help students better visualize and interact with historic sites. For example, a history professor might create virtual replicas of ancient ruins, allowing students to explore the detailed layout of the sites. AR can help faculty breathe new life into the study of the past.

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Three Australian universities to set up in Indonesia

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Western Sydney University has a long and proud history of opening up access to higher education for students who have the drive, ambition and dedication to succeed. Establishing a significant long-term presence in Indonesia is an exciting new chapter in that history,” said Jennifer Westacott, chancellor, Western Sydney University.

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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. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. Geisler last summer.

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

Faculty Focus

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. A theory of human motivation. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? Canrinus, E.

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