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. Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Anita: As someone who spent her early childhood in a female-headed, welfare-dependent and food- and housing-insecure household, and as the first woman in my family to finish high school, I know what education meant to me—and what it means to many of our structurally disadvantaged students. Anita: The humanities are not irrelevant.
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SRHE
JUNE 7, 2023
Coming from a US liberal arts background, my initial mental image of a ‘campus’ is very different from the revised version that is in my mind’s eye after studying and working at universities in the UK. Brett’s work prioritises Activity Theory conceptions of human practice, and interventionist methodologies. Julianne : It has!
eLiterate
OCTOBER 25, 2022
So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. This proposal might be called radically conservative in the sense that it is intended to conserve the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
They worry that a mathematical formula based on economic outcomes will necessarily disadvantage schools with more working-class students or graduates in lower-earning professions, such as teaching and social work. “Humanities majors want jobs, too.”
Susquehanna President's Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2022
o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. Whatsoever oracles the human heart, in all emergencies, in all solemn hours, has uttered as its commentary on the world of actions, — these he shall receive and impart. He is the world's eye. He is the world's heart.
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