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

Inside Higher Ed

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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Discounted tuition by major devalues the humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists.

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Five ways to help students take smart sustainability actions (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

[block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. As authors like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker have pointed out, humanity is better off by most measures—wealth, child mortality, education levels and more—than at any point in modern history.

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AHA: See textbooks, op-eds, gaming as historical scholarship

Inside Higher Ed

It’s a development historians say follows movement—particularly within the field of public history—toward broader recognition. ” “More and more we are trying to express the value of the humanities to communities,” he said.

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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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A Commitment to Help Others

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I don’t know that there’s been a point in time in history where we haven’t concerned ourselves with any of these.” In academia, she taught as an instructor in the Emory University Center for Human Health and assistant professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine, where she designed the Master of Public Health Global Health Track.

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Toward a more inclusive peer-review process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. But I was impressed by how much you do in publishing to build up a book.” Disable left side advertisement?: