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Discounted tuition by major devalues the humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

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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Higher degrees or higher ambitions? A new approach to PhDs

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Christopher Smith , Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2020/21, there were about 18,000 arts and humanities doctoral candidates. How much public money should be spent and on what kinds of arts and humanities PhDs?

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The Growing Role of Artificial Intelligence in College Admissions

Insight Into Diversity

Particularly for those with smaller admissions offices, this frees up admissions officers to focus on the other, necessarily nuanced aspects of the application process, like awarding scholarships and financial aid packages. “If Kenyon College, a small private school with a 29% acceptance rate, uses a holistic application review process.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships. She explains that one of the main gaps was that, when diseases were being modeled, certain variables were being removed. We thought to design a model of aging where we try to understand and appreciate the differences in wound responses.” “She

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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3%

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Only 6% of American college students study abroad

The PIE News

Among them are the prestigious Fulbright Program and Gilman International Scholarship Program, the latter of which is open exclusively to college students receiving federal Pell Grants. Semester-long experiences for academic credit remain the traditional model.

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