The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Audrey Williams June While the worth of a humanities degree has been called into question in recent years, a new state-by-state analysis shows its earning power is stronger than what many people think, with an unemployment rate similar to graduates in other fields.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 2, 2023

EDTECH: How did you become interested in humanizing online classrooms? PACANSKY-BROCK: When I was getting my master’s degree in art history, I…

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

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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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. This semester, the first cohort of the Mandel program came together, comprised of students with interests in the arts, writing, communication or the humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” We shouldn’t be surprised that the decline in humanities faculty has led to a decline in humanities majors.

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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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Higher Ed Data Stories

JULY 7, 2022

It shows all doctoral recipients (in 2016-2020) broken out by where they received their bachelor's degrees. That would be interesting, but of course, these are large institutions, and it's natural to think lots of graduates will lead to lots of doctoral degrees. No surprise there. You can also look at HBCUs if you'd like.

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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. ” Surely, many of the available explanations have varying degrees of validity.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Student eligibility requirements include earning 60 semester credit hours – 42 university core credit hours and 18 credit hours related to their intended baccalaureate degree – at least 30 of which were earned at WTAMU; achievement of a minimum 2.0 GPA; and no previous award of an associate degree at another institution.

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University Business

APRIL 17, 2024

AI is helping us help our students in ways that feel much more human than skeptics of this new technology might have thought possible. But the best chatbots also incorporate a human touch that manages to be engaging and empathetic. That makes humans more effective at doing what they do best, which is to dig into complex problems.

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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.

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University Business

MAY 2, 2023

In the 2020-21 school year, Humanities majors experienced a drop in graduate percentage across the United States. The amount of bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has been steadily decreasing by the tens of thousands since 2010, which is the most the field has ever lost. The post Is the humanities field ‘endangered’?

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Some six of the projects, originally outlined in the European strategy for universities in 2022, will examine, test and facilitate the delivery of a joint European Degree label. “Most of all, it will lead to simplification of accreditation processes and new high-quality joint degrees. Glad to launch?Minister

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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.”

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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

According to a report from local news source MLive, this open-ended experiment could end up producing the first machine learning agents to earn a degree via classroom education. The post Michigan university to let AI participate in classes, choose major, earn degree appeared first on University Business.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

” 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. was risky; there were few positions when I took my degree in 1975.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

The conference was co-sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and the NJ Council of County Colleges, and it included over 100 people from around the state. Its unapologetic focus was the state of the humanities in community colleges. In light of those results, it’s hard to write off the humanities as frills.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Starting salaries for college graduates with bachelor’s degrees in traditionally higher-paying disciplines are leveling off, according to a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). The average starting salary for bachelor’s degree graduates in computer science is expected to decrease by 4.0% from last year.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To meet the growing demand, many are developing distinctive degrees, certificates, and other programs that help graduate students, faculty, and workforce professionals develop the required skills. DEI-focused degree programs like those at UK serve as pathways to chief diversity officer (CDO) and other DEI leadership roles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. in philosophy.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This marks the university’s first fully online degree and the first online Ivy League master’s degree in this topic. Key human skills needed for management and leadership programs are integrated throughout the curriculum. We’re proud to expand our partnership with Dartmouth, which has reached learners in over 180 countries.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

A new report from the National Humanities Alliance, based in part on a national survey of colleges and universities, finds that training in the public humanities is a relatively new offering but a growing one. Some 72 percent of 156 responding institutions said they offered a public humanities course, degree or credential for students.

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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. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. We pretty much have three options as international humanities majors. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2024

Across the country, arts and humanities programs are being axed in a misguided attempt to balance public university budgets. From New York and North Carolina to North Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin, we are seeing academic departments, degrees and faculty reduced or eliminated.

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University Business

APRIL 29, 2024

Despite declining higher education enrollment rates beginning in 2010, undergraduate degrees in engineering and computer science are continuing to see substantial growth most likely due to the high lifetime wage earnings they promise, according to a new study published by Sage Journals. ” Researchers analyzed survey data from 5.8

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Three-year bachelor’s degrees are coming to Brigham Young University–Idaho and affiliated Ensign College next year, following approval of the truncated programs by an accrediting body.

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MindMax

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Another reason is that CFES, in particular, focuses on creating pathways to education for students in underserved populations through initiatives like mentoring and teaching essential human skills that AI can’t replace. Americans, in general, are expressing ambivalence toward college as they struggle to see the value of a 4-year degree.

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Coursera blog

MAY 1, 2023

These “human” skills are less susceptible to automation and are increasingly important as the technology accelerates the rate of change. The post Coursera research in the WEF Future of Jobs Report 2023: learners without degrees can learn critical skills just as fast as degree holders appeared first on Coursera Blog.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Could a degree consist of almost anything? The argument is around the usefulness of a degree to a student. If most people don’t use college-level math at work, why should it be a universal requirement for any degree? That’s especially true when colleges stipulate upfront that the degree may not be transferable.

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Liaison International

MARCH 22, 2023

Number of undergrads who earned a degree fell for the first time since 2012 The number of college students earning an undergraduate degree each year had been rising steadily for most of the past decade, but that trend has come to an end. fewer associate degree holders went on to complete a bachelor’s degree.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

in English and humanities. The vote eliminated majors in art, economics, English, history, mathematics, philosophy, secondary education, sociology, and theology and religious studies, and an M.A. The majors have relatively few students enrolled, the university said.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Launching 8 new degrees, 3 Professional Certificates, and a growing catalog of generative AI content: We’re excited to expand our portfolio of job-relevant online degrees with eight new programs in high-demand areas such as computer science, data science, and business administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Lynn Byrd Lynn Byrd has been appointed division director of human resources for the Office of Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech. She served as senior manager of human resources and as interim division director. Byrd holds a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech and an MBA from Averett University in Virginia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Hicks is a tenured full professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at East Tennessee State University, where he has served as a dean for the Clemmer College of Education and Human Development. in counseling and counselor education and higher education from North Carolina State University.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 2, 2022

More Employers Drop College Degree Requirement. The Wall Street Journal reported that a growing number of public and private employers are responding to a competitive hiring environment — and, in some cases, diversity concerns — by abandoning policies that require candidates for specific jobs to hold a four-year college degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Jasmine Sanders Jasmine Sanders has been appointed executive director of human resources at Savannah Technical College in Georgia. Sanders holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and an MBA from Troy University. She served as a talent development manager for Virginia Peninsula Community College.

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