Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Column: Intellectual Affairs Without making any claim to exhaustiveness, here is a brief survey of new and forthcoming books on information technology and digital media published by academic presses this fall. ” Finally, a book that considers the other AI in depth—ailurophile iconography, that is.

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Dan Cohen

MAY 25, 2021

Here’s a fun, brief introduction by Garrett Dash Nelson, with zooming and snapping hand motions reminiscent of Minority Report : And here’s a fuller example on the history of trolleys in Greater Boston: Note that this will work for other digital images, not just maps. I can imagine many uses for education and explanatory journalism.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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Dan Cohen

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Multimedia essays from the Plant Humanities Lab were recently posted and are worth a look. A good place to start is with the strange history of the banana , as illustrated by Ashley Buchanan in one of her Juncture-powered PHL pieces. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It’s an inspirational message from an inspirational woman who will go down in history as one of the most transformative leaders in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Supreme Court to hear from a slate of speakers — students, educators, parents, artists, and leaders civil and human rights organizations like National Urban League President Marc Morial and Kimberlé Crenshaw, cofounder and executive director of African American Policy Forum and a law professor at UCLA and Columbia University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued. in theater history from The Ohio State University. Theater is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses art, literature, history, design and more, Lee notes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As debates over how students should learn about race heat up and K-12 schools ban more and more books, it’s an increasingly urgent concern. The next two largest groups were Black characters and non-human characters such as animals, each representing 16%. You see white characters in the fullness of humanity,” she said. “So,

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Asking readers to imagine Islam anew, as a vast web of interconnected traces seen through the prism of time, the book opens with a networked table of contents. Experimentation with new scholarly forms is taking place across a number of libraries, humanities centers and university presses.

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Educause

MAY 1, 2023

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) established the Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship in 2021 to improve support and access to and sustainability of digital resources and humanities projects related to social and racial justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “In the words of Wilma Rudolph, ‘never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. History at UCLA. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

From designing custom art images to creating “Soundful: AI Music Generator” songs and videos to interacting with historical figures through “Hello History” fun chats, AI has the capability to boost education and deep learning. With AI, educators can create more differentiated learning tools and enhance personalization.

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ACRLog

JUNE 26, 2023

Book challenges, anti-intellectualism, and DEI higher education legislation makes me hide away from it all. James Baldwin once said, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. They have been documenting their history and making their contributions to society.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” ” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski Since his appointment as dean in 2017, Sniegowski has been responsible for the direction of Penn’s liberal arts undergraduate curricula, programs and students in academic departments and interdisciplinary programs across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And did you know all of this mess can be attributed directly to a set of misguided economic nostrums that go by the name of "Human Capital Theory" ? This is the tragedy of deeply flawed Human Capital Theory. Sadly, Human Capital Theory does not take any of this into account.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

I should add that neither US News nor the educated public has much understanding of what a first-tier, cutting-edge English or history or sociology department would look like. One might attribute this quiescence in the humanities to an aging professoriate or to shrinking doctoral programs and departments and increasing reliance on adjuncts.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Science fiction is the genre that allows us to imagine the future—not just future technologies, but the future of society and human life. asked what, if anything, distinguishes a human from an android. We read, Weinstein wrote , because “important books shine a unique beam on human behavior, thought and feeling.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Weiss’s Why the Museum Matters ( Yale University Press ) and soon got mixed up with rumination on the book. It is among the oldest examples of what Weiss calls an “encyclopedic” museum, aspiring to “collect art and archeological materials from the great epochs of human history across the vast geographies of the world.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Could it be that education has become so transactional that the human connection and engagement with ideas are just by-products of degree attainment? Lambert in their book Relationship-Rich Education. How Human Connection Drive Success in College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). Share your story here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

In her new book, Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival, s he dissects and questions the normalization, romanticization, and pathologizing of Black grandmothers’ caring labor. She is currently an associate professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

” The passage then goes on to say, “And the Word was made flesh …” These clauses are typically interpreted to mean that a divine plan, divine precepts and injunctions, and divine law preceded and directed human history. That’s why NGOs routinely call literacy a human right.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

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.”

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SRHE

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This was an early session linked for our upcoming open access book of the same name, which we aim to publish in late 2023. This book, as well as our research resource website which led to it, focuses on developing critical considerations for researchers who focus their work on international students and their experiences in higher education.

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The PIE News

MARCH 20, 2024

When you’re using huge volumes of data, artificial intelligence can help – but the things we sometimes do and see with data as humans are about making novel connections and AI can’t do that. What’s a book or podcast recommendation you have for the sector? It is incredibly difficult to do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2023

In the prisons where I work, they’re limited to no more than 10 books total,” she said. They’re always having to make these heartbreaking choices about which books they’re going to get [and which] they’re going to give away.” He also encountered challenges with his senior project, a 60–80-page paper on the history of the urban novel.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

An associate professor of medicine, medical ethics, health humanities, and health policy at Baylor College of Medicine and director of its Humanities Expression and Arts Lab, who also moonlighted for McSweeney’s, the non-profit publishing house, Nuila is the son of a Salvadoran immigrant.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When the novel’s narrator asks whether he will be the hero of his own life, he is in fact grappling with an issue, human and historical agency, that has become central to academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. At each point in history, Native Americans have been dynamic agents of change.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

He would spend years “trying to search out the hidden meanings of the deep things that make the puzzle and pathos of human existence” – to no avail, baffled and mocked by life’s cruelty. Human life is suffused with pointless, undeserved suffering. Samuelson is no Pollyanna.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

What was particularly new about the Robbins Review was a costed proposal for more money which promised by reference to nascent Human Capital Theory to be self-financing through growth in productivity. These changes and similar trends in other nations have led some to suggest that Human Capital Theory is dead or dying (Lauder et al, 2022).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Two recent books that have received widespread attention underscore a much broader emotional or affective turn in humanistic and social science scholarship. Much of the book looks at how readers can better gauge their emotional makeup, helping them achieve a higher level of self-understanding. Products of history.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Anyway, it was not clear what insight into the books themselves would follow. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion ( Palgrave Macmillan ), Robert T. Hobbits are not magical or supernatural; they are, basically, small humans. I asked the author a series of questions by email.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

[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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Leader of Learning

JUNE 13, 2022

Sam Nix (@_SamuelNix), Chief of Schools in the Duncanville Independent School District, 2015-2016 Principal of the Year in the Arlington Independent School, and author of the book, “Ensure Educational Success.” History State Accountability Scores. Sam Nix began his career in education as a middle school teacher and coach. Please Share!

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? ” They have no interest in the history and the conflict of that too vague term. For example, do they actually mean “the arts and sciences” or “the arts and humanities”?

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