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Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

” What he cites is not scientific and excludes basic humanity and context, the fundamentals of the historical human sciences. There is a significant literature from the 1930s on of which Newman, Heller, and too many humanities professors seem unaware. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 Newman unknowingly reflects this.

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Humanities should help students find enlightenment and careers (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Studying the humanities is a good in and of itself. Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 3 In-Article Advertisement High: 6 In-Article related stories: 9 In-Article Advertisement Low: 12 That is completely true. And it’s a strategic argument that will win over no one, argues Rachel Toor.

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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. ” But he said there are financial issues at smaller colleges that “are general problems, not just of humanities.” Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Thoughts on dealing with despair over the state of the humanities (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

As the planet warms, the humanities grow cold, writes William Major. Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 6 In-Article Advertisement High: 9 In-Article related stories: 12 In-Article Advertisement Low: 15 Include DNU?: Yes In-Article Careers: 3 The only remaining question: What to do now?

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Humane Ingenuity 38: The Vigoda Verification

Dan Cohen

After reading this article, I hereby declare that we replace the Turing Test with the Vigoda Verification , in which the quality of an AI system is a measure of its ability to identify Abe Vigoda in a large corpus of images: By using separate fields, the team can compare the AI-powered metadata against the metadata provided manually.

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Humanities majors should pay lower tuition (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. in economics as it does in humanities fields in most American universities?