HEPI
APRIL 18, 2023
This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. These values run contrary to systemic oppression.
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Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Mellon Foundation’s Higher Learning program, the department will further its goals by hiring new faculty members from several fields. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. PhD, chair of faculty programs and departmental initiatives at the Department of Black Studies, said in the release.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 16, 2023
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. percent,” the association wrote.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 10, 2023
laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 19, 2023
Georgetown University and Howard University have been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund the establishment of a center for medical humanities. year grant from the Mellon Foundation will go towards the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice, which aims to reduce health disparities in D.C.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
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. What’s behind this decline? No complex problem has a monocausal explanation.
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