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University Business
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. Colleges and universities hailing from both sides of the fence are inching ever closer to the middle, integrating lessons in the humanities with STEM-based curriculum—and vice versa. More from UB: Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril.
University Business
DECEMBER 19, 2022
The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Without art history, anthropology, and archaeology majors, who will curate our museums? New tools.
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Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
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. candidates that have only the most limited prospects of a tenure-track job, whether at a two- or four-year school.
University Business
MARCH 14, 2023
Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Other notable mentions: Dr. Stuart Rayfield, Columbus State University Dr. Cheryl McConnell, Saint Joseph’s University, the school’s first female president.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. I had attended a high school that offered many advanced classes.
eLiterate
JANUARY 17, 2023
While this problem is often framed by academia as a decrease in the supply of students—the so-called “enrollment cliff,” the hot job market, and so on—I think it is better understood as a failure to respond to changing demand and new opportunities. Mr. Hadhad was midway through medical school when he fled Syria.
The Change Leader, Inc.
MARCH 21, 2023
Rural-serving institutions (RSIs) face many more unique challenges than most urban schools and persist, comprising more than 25% of all U.S. Meanwhile, political appointees only view their schools as political tools. Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education.
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