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. in economics as it does in humanities fields in most American universities?

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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. Three major currents demand greater attention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. Dr. Corey D. Michele Gillespie. “He

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

Johanna Bond will become dean of Rutgers Law School, effective Jul. 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.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. Once, a group of business school students initiated a petition to remove a giant two-headed outdoor rubber ducky sculpture (and me from the job for displaying it) because they felt it wasn’t dignified enough for the campus.

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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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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The college was renamed and reorganized from the former College of Health and Human Services. Georgetown University, School of Health. opened its School of Health, an interdisciplinary program once part of the former School of Nursing & Health Sciences, from which Georgetown’s new School of Nursing was also launched.

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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

JUNE 6, 2023

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has made history by suing an online learning company, Edmodo, for collecting and using children’s data to target them with behavioral advertising.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. Colleges and universities hailing from both sides of the fence are inching ever closer to the middle, integrating lessons in the humanities with STEM-based curriculum—and vice versa. But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

When I worked as a carhop in high school, we were not allowed to carry calculators, and no one fathomed that one day we would have a calculator right on our cell phone in our pocket! One notable question is: When should we use Generative AI and technology in classrooms, exploring the balance of human touch versus computing intelligence?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Latinx students can have a tough time navigating the numerous structural and institutional challenges that work against them in academia, especially when it comes to attending and succeeding in graduate school. Graduate school does not need to be a lonely, solitary endeavor, and it’s so much better when it isn’t.

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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. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. s most segregated school systems, the map states.

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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.” Black studies is not just about the past or history — it also provides us with so many paths forward toward more equitable community building.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

When Brown University released its landmark 2006 report documenting the institution’s historical involvement in slavery, many of its recommendations were one-time fixes: revising the university’s official history, creating memorials, and the like. For Dr. Ruth J. Dr. Ruth J. Simmons is former president of Brown University. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

history, Tufts University; M.A., international affairs, The New School; and Ph.D., His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. Mark enrolled at the New School, where he earned a master’s degree in international affairs in 2012.

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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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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And did you know all of this mess can be attributed directly to a set of misguided economic nostrums that go by the name of "Human Capital Theory" ? This is the tragedy of deeply flawed Human Capital Theory. Sadly, Human Capital Theory does not take any of this into account.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

That’s because he studied abroad with our School for International Training program in Kenya as a college student over 30 years ago. Dynamic innovation and leadership is happening all over the continent, in public health, climate and sustainability, history and culture and urban development; there’s much for American students to learn.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

history, Tufts University; M.A., international affairs, The New School; and Ph.D., His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. Mark enrolled at the New School, where he earned a master’s degree in international affairs in 2012.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Catherine Mason, an expert in this field, has delved into the history of this evolution, focusing on a central question: Will machines amplify or supersede the artist? Pioneers of the Computer-Art Movement Among the pioneers was Gordon Pask, known for his interactive artworks that explored the human-machine relationship.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 3, 2023

Last month, for the first time in Manhattanville's history, tenured faculty in the arts and humanities were pushed away. But now they will follow a CUNY/SUNY big school format, with most courses taught by adjunct faculty. Since the 1840s, Manhattanville College was famous for its caring faculty. But is that really the answer?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people. It’s a history that must be told and folks are doing it—but Dunn does it at a risk to himself and the people he teaches.” Mellon Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

Mayes The new school year is upon us. With it comes our individual and collective hopes and concerns about the quality of life in schools for Black students. Our hopes and concerns also pertain to school counselors, mental health providers, and administrators; they are also predominantly white. Ford, Erik M. Hines, Edward C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion. Sniegowski holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Indiana University School of Music; an M.A. He is currently writing a book, Persistence of Error: A Natural History of Mutation, explaining genetic mutation for non-scientists.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I am so proud that the School of Arts & Sciences can lead on this critical priority with the expansion of a department that will inspire conversation, research, and ultimately action,” Nicole Sampson, the Robert L. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. and Mary L.

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Today, my young son and all his fellow pupils are compelled by their state school to have a laptop, which is used in around half of all lessons and for all homework.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “In the words of Wilma Rudolph, ‘never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. History at UCLA. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. noted they received unfair treatment from school administrators. of non-LGBTQ people.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Ly Tran, a professor in the school of education at Deakin University, told The PIE how harmful this particular rule could end up being – both for certain demographics and for Australia’s standing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month. Sullivan discussed his latest book, We’ll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity, which chronicles the history and impacts of AMHPS.

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