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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jakobsen is the Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College in New York. Jakobsen, the Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College in New York, says students continue to be a driving force for her. There are also state policies diminishing LGBTQ rights. “It

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Rethinking the Future of the Humanities

Inside Higher Ed

There’s a pervasive sense among many adults with humanities degrees that In the wake of deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodernism, semiotics and the cultural, linguistic and discursive turns, literary studies, in particular, like other core humanities disciplines, is in deep trouble. The field has fragmented.

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How Scholarship, Service, and Experience Inform One Professor's Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Massey also co-facilitates the Binghamton Human Sexualities Lab with three colleagues. In the early 2000s, they adopted a son, who is now a college student. He graduated from Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, with a degree in psychology.

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How federal and state policies gauge colleges' value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

Image: As recently as a decade ago, the concept of “value” rarely found its way into discussions about federal policy making about higher education. Inside Higher Ed : How appropriate is it for federal and state governments to judge colleges based on the value they provide? An edited transcript of the discussion follows.

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Q&A with chair of the National Endowment of the Humanities

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Shelly Lowe spoke with Inside Higher Ed this week about what it is like to be the first Native American chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities , the federal agency charged with supporting research and education in the humanities. There is no one moment where you think, “Oh, that’s humanities!”

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Only 6% of American college students study abroad

The PIE News

million students enrolled in college, just under 170,000 studied abroad in the 2021/22 academic year. That’s less than 6% of all American college students. Over the last century, US foreign policy and diplomacy have counted on this interaction to help build mutual understanding and goodwill among nations. Through the U.S.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3%