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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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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville remains a private liberal arts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years. After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences.

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Reflections on Fitzgerald and the Qatar World Cup (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In the same way, I hoped students would see Qatar’s transformations as containing many political possibilities while recognizing the country had much work to do in terms of human rights. Western countries, including both European nations and the United States, have a terrible track record when it comes to the history of human rights.

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When a college president is also a tech entrepreneur

Inside Higher Ed

Rize was founded in 2019, and Adrian began using the platform the following year. Docking told Inside Higher Ed such efforts are a necessary innovation for higher education, offering strapped institutions an affordable way to add courses of study and flexible online programs in an effort to recruit students. The Docking Experiments.

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Study finds true faculty diversity is possible by 2050

Inside Higher Ed

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. is a collective failure perpetuated by our focus on institution-level changes,” wrote authors J. And they’ll need to work together to do it.

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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

Inside Higher Ed

” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students. million Andrew W.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

” At William & Mary, an institution currently in its 330th year, we have a saying: “We change to preserve what we value most.” Adaptation, innovation and flexibility are required as the university evolves while holding firm to its heart and soul as a liberal arts university. That’s the roadmap.