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. 2021–22 Median Salaries for Tenure-Track Faculty. What’s behind this decline?

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University Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Students at the University of Alabama could soon be required to take fewer writing, humanities and history courses as faculty vote on a major change to general education requirements this week. Students also will no longer have to complete a foreign language requirement if they took similar courses in high school.

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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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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 institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

Mellon Foundation, Wayne State University will create the Detroit Center for Black Studies and recruit 30 new humanities faculty. The faculty-led, multidisciplinary center will connect Black Studies faculty from institutions across the state of Michigan, the university announced in December. The Andrew W.

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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.

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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. This hiring effort comes only several months after the department brought in two new faculty members — Jordan Ealey, PhD, expert on Black feminism in performance art and theater, and Philip V.

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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. History: 3.6 It was affirming. Business majors: 3.7 Physics: 3.4 Language/Lit: 3.7

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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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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

By Julian Roberts-Grmela Still from video by Carmen Mendoza, The Chronicle Irma Becerra English, history, and math are among the planned cuts as the university targets low-enrollment programs. Some faculty, students, and alumni are protesting.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

As a current practicing artist and critic and a former art faculty member, art museum director and curator, I feel as if I’ve seen and heard it all when it comes to responses to art. In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. Blog: Just Explain It to Me!

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. Rising student loan debt and tuition need to be addressed.

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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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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. Lynn Pasquerella, who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy. in English. “[It

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. “Overall, the lack of progress on faculty diversity in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” “Not yet, but I have a lot of ideas …” This is a representative sample of faculty responses to the question “If you have successfully integrated use of ChatGPT into your classes, how have you done so?” ” “I will do this in the future.” ” “Yes.” ” “No way.”

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. Students with a special interest in humanities were found to experience a seven-grand bump, totaling $83,000. for physical science and history majors.

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University Business

JULY 21, 2023

Through the tuition revenue they accrue by teaching lectures to the federal grant dollars they gain through sponsored research, faculty may be the financial pulse of an institution. which will discuss revamping faculty affairs in a post-pandemic world. Interfolio is a higher education technology company focused on faculty affairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Wayne State University has received $6 million to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black studies center. and global histories, culture, social, economic, legal, and health systems. . and global histories, culture, social, economic, legal, and health systems. .

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 3, 2023

During the past two years, administrators at storied Manhattanville College have removed 46 full-time faculty--by paying then to retire or laying them off. Last month, for the first time in Manhattanville's history, tenured faculty in the arts and humanities were pushed away. But is that really the answer?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

MDRC, NASH, and CAHL seek to examine the role of faculty and staff in the course articulation process, which involves evaluating whether a transfer course will be accepted for credit. Another insight that emerged from our early conversations with faculty and staff is the complexity of transfer processes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. The idea to create a cannabis studies program at the Salem, Virginia school came from a faculty discussion in 2022 about out-of-the-box curriculum ideas. It's a big business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

history, Tufts University; M.A., Clark, Binghamton University as well as so many others who have supported and helped me along the way Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Most things can wait. international affairs, The New School; and Ph.D., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

I think we’re living in a time right now of grave misinformation, of suppression of history, and of rolling back of civil and human rights, and we need to know how we got here.” There are also plans for two additional tenure-track faculty lines, said Dr. Beronda Montgomery, Grinnell dean and vice president of academic affairs. “I

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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. People need one another, and technology will never replace human teachers. The landscape will shift quickly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

history, Tufts University; M.A., Clark, Binghamton University as well as so many others who have supported and helped me along the way Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Most things can wait. international affairs, The New School; and Ph.D., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs. “An Johanna Bond will become dean of Rutgers Law School, effective Jul.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

It is also a highly gendered one because history repeatedly illustrates a strong societal lack of care and concern for Black women, resulting in untimely death, insurmountable stress, strategic interference and undermining, and other forces that ensure our time in leadership ends far too soon. It is a loss.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., 2] will make history as the first AI mainstage presenter. For instance, at the June 2023 ISTELive event, C.L.Ai.R.A. [2] Exploring ChatGPT. [1]

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The University of Chicago faces rising debt levels more serious than those at any of its peer institutions, a result of overspending in the sciences that could cost the elite campus its traditional strength in the humanities, a professor has warned.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

“Serving that ideal, and serving Earlham’s students and faculty, is why I am so excited to become part of the community.” He is currently writing a book, Persistence of Error: A Natural History of Mutation, explaining genetic mutation for non-scientists.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The archival methods used vary widely and include oral history recordings, immersive experiences in augmented reality, documentary films, interactive web maps, and written accounts, among others. “As This concept comprises the goal of the Digital Borderlands in the Classroom project, the initiative’s second phase, which recently secured a $1.2

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 19, 2023

Projects will range from documenting the oral histories of Black Memphians during the Civil Rights era to understanding where resources should be situated in our city to better serve our neighbors who are unhoused,” said Natalie Person, iRaST director and dean for curricular development at Rhodes, in a press statement.

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UW Presidential Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Northwest African American Museum : Showcasing African American art, history and culture in the PNW. Blackpast.org : Largest online encyclopedia on African American and Global African History on the Internet. We come together each February to celebrate Black history. Woodson in 1926 into Black History Month in 1960.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday.

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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

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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