Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“If we want to disrupt systemic oppression, we need a model that prioritizes care, empathy, love, authenticity, healing, hope, collectivity, solidarity, and community,” said Gaston Gayles, president of ASHE and distinguished graduate professor and senior advisor for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at North Carolina State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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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. What’s behind this decline? No complex problem has a monocausal explanation.

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Dan Cohen

JANUARY 24, 2022

I also happen to love this passage from Rollo May’s book, which is incredibly relevant to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter. Joel Willick, an engineering student at Northeastern University, has created a delightful robot named Bob ROS , an excellent play on the late, great Bob Ross of PBS’s cult hit “The Joy of Painting.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

How we view the past is always colored by our present-day vantage point, but long before the recent surge in Black migration from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, African American history and culture had an international dimension. Comparative, transnational, and diasporic history can take many different forms.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. 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.

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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. We are committed to building a much more inclusive public research university that better reflects and serves our city, state and nation.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

Column: Letters to the Editor To the editor: I am surprised to see Andrew Newman, chair of the English department at the University at Stony Brook, in his March 9 essay "The English Major, After the End, " repeating Nathan Heller’s unresearched and misrepresented “The End of the English Major,” The New Yorker (Mar.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Dan Cohen

MAY 25, 2021

Here’s a fun, brief introduction by Garrett Dash Nelson, with zooming and snapping hand motions reminiscent of Minority Report : And here’s a fuller example on the history of trolleys in Greater Boston: Note that this will work for other digital images, not just maps. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Blair LM Kelley is a noted scholar of Black history and the African American experience. Kelley — the author of Black Folk: The Promise of the Black Working Class and the award-winning Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship — is a John Hope Franklin National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 22, 2024

Nearly 30,000 faculty members from 23 California State University (CSU) campuses went on strike on Monday, marking the largest faculty labor action in U.S. history and the first systemwide strike by the California Faculty Association (CFA) since 1983.

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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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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. But they are where students learn to have difficult conversations in an atmosphere of free inquiry and expression.

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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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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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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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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. He also leads work at Humanities Indicators and holds a Ph.D.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do?

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 17, 2023

At 41, I’ve returned to university, an experience which, first time round, totally changed my life. It is 20 years later, and I am having my first week at university again. Last spring, I applied to study an MA in a new-ish discipline called Environmental Humanities. This time, I am 41. Continue reading.

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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. .

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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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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. He also co-directed documentary film, “Fifeville.”

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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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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Since its launch in late 2022, the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester (UR) has worked to advance conversations surrounding Black and African culture and identity through an interdisciplinary, global lens. Thanks to a new $3 million grant from the Andrew W.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

BY RODOLFO ROSALES Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship recipients have formed a community in which we can share the products of our knowledge, our talents, our research, and our work in the arts, humanities, and sciences—along with many other intellectual accomplishments across the disciplines that have been significant in establishing our footprint (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Gilliam, a physician and higher education leader, will take on the mantle of president of Boston University, effective Jul. Dr. Melissa Gilliam Boston University Photography Gilliam, 58, is no stranger to firsts. There is so much talent and human potential, I figure in 2023 it should be commonplace. And it just isn’t.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

An upcoming exhibition at Brown University will depict the incarcerated life of political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, through a collection of written papers and other materials, to educate people on the realities and inequalities of the American prison system. 28 to July 2024, across multiple campus sites. The event will take place Sept.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

Baylor University has recently dedicated statues honoring its first Black graduates, the late Rev. That it intends to live into a grander moral vision that would make her worthy of bearing the imprimatur Christian university.” Gilbert, and Barbara A. In memorializing my father, Rev. “In In memorializing my father, Rev.

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The PIE News

JULY 13, 2023

A new generation of Indonesians will have the chance to study at an Australian university at home, as three more Australian institutions plan to launch campuses in Indonesia. Over time, campus numbers are expected to reach 2,500 students, the university has said. An honour to farewell Indonesian President ⁦ @jokowi ⁩ this morning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Jennifer Borland Jennifer Borland has been appointed director of Oklahoma State University’s Center for the Humanities. She is a professor of art history at the university. Borland holds a bachelor’s degree in the history of art from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Led by professor Leland Harper, the initiative was fueled by a $34,905 planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to “design a new, coherent D&I certificate program … that is qualitatively distinct from the D&I certificates offered at other institutions,” records show. Read more from the New York Post.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The City University of New York has received $5 million from the Mellon Foundation to expand CUNY’s innovative Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative. The project was created with support from the foundation to drive change across CUNY's 25 campuses and advance racial and social justice initiatives. Dr. Félix V.

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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

This blog is provided by Daniel Dipper who graduated from the University of Oxford in 2023, having been the first from his immediate family to go to university thanks to Zero Gravity, The Sutton Trust, and the Social Mobility Foundation. How could a degree in History and Politics be so useful in financial technology?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When the students arrive at their postsecondary institutions, the higher education community conveniently neglects its responsibility to address the deliberate omission, even though curricular content at the lower levels is essentially determined by university officials.

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