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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. The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses.

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

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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

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But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. The SED shows that American universities awarded 55,283 doctoral degrees in 2020—15 percent more than a decade earlier. is growing.

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A Dynamic Thinker

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And I also work in the area of bioethics and the law, with a special focus on genetics, human reproduction, and mental health. Allen was vice provost for faculty at Penn from 2013 to 2020. This article appeared in the December 8, 2022 edition of Diverse.

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How COVID spurred online education innovation and empathy

Inside Higher Ed

Image: By most accounts, the March 2020 switch to emergency remote teaching and learning was rough on students, faculty members and staff workers. But those distractions also humanized instructors, according to the study. Student mental health suffered, existing inequities were exacerbated and many missed a sense of community.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. “We use bots in serving our students,” Reshef said, adding that this frees human professors to do work that is better suited to human minds. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 Others have fled wars in Syria or Ukraine. ’ 10,000 times.

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Professor's murder on campus raises urgent safety questions

Inside Higher Ed

A woman there filed a restraining order against him in 2020. SDSU said in a statement that Dervish, 46, was first enrolled as a graduate student there in 2018 and last enrolled in the spring of 2020. Prior to moving to Arizona, Dervish was enrolled in a graduate program at San Diego State University. He left without graduating.