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History hiring in the pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: In 2020–21, history faculty job postings hit their lowest point since the American Historical Association started tracking openings in 1975, at just 347 positions total. H-Net, another popular job listing site, showed a similar year-over-year increase, with 670 jobs in history and area studies for 2021–22.

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Op-Ed: Pride, History Propel LGBTQ+ Rights Forward

Insight Into Diversity

That these same labeled people grabbed hold of the word “pride” to name their movement was an act of civil disobedience against both history and language. LGBTQ+ History Month (October in the U.S.) History, of course, is a source of pride. History is another. History nourishes pride. Pride energizes history.

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Humane Ingenuity 44: Bookwork and Cloud Labs

Dan Cohen

We have become familiar with how technology, media, commerce, and forms of human expression are deeply intertwined. Ah, the 1980s, when computer magazines had joyous, goofy illustrations in them. Peter Bentley, illustration for “The Art of the FOR…NEXT Loop , Input Magazine , 1984, Vol.

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Q&A: Michelle Pacansky-Brock Humanizes Asynchronous Learning

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

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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The Humanities are in the Midst of a Historic Paradigm Shift

Inside Higher Ed

I think it is fair to say that we are in the midst of a historic paradigm shift within the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. Issues previously regarded as apolitical, such as how museums should interpret history or natural history or technology, had become politically contentious.

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Showing the Human Face of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength. It's really important that we just be human." They provide professional development."

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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!”