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Business and Health Professions Lead Faculty Growth as Humanities Decline, CUPA-HR Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In recent years, higher education institutions have faced increasing pressure to prioritize disciplines with clear career pathways over traditional liberal arts programs, according to a new report from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). Business also showed robust growth of 20.8%

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Humane Ingenuity 37: Data and the Humanities

Dan Cohen

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the many datasets we’ve wrestled with this year, it’s that all the data — every single point — is the result of human decision-making. As majors have sharply declined over the last decade, a thousand verbose defenses of the humanities have been published.

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The Role of Writing in Communicative Language Teaching: An Investigation of an AI-Integrated Classroom Activity

Faculty Focus

For students, writing in a foreign language can be intimidating, often because they feel they lack the necessary vocabulary or fear making mistakes that become fossilized (Kara, 2013; Shang, 2013; Tallon, 2009). Angela Rodriguez Mooney, PhD, is an assistant professor of Spanish and the Texas Women’s University. Kearney, E.

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Beyond the Classroom: Establishing Partnerships for Real-World Learning and Student Success

Faculty Focus

Collaborative partners can include community agencies, businesses, government institutions, public institutions, and even on-campus collaborators, such as university entities. Coveys (2013) habit “Synergize” focuses on leveraging the strengths of each party to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Finley, L.

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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

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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Will the use of generative AI shift higher education from a knowledge-first system to a skills-first system?

HEPI

On the eve of the release of HEPIs Student Generative AI Survey 2025 , HEPI hosted a roundtable dinner with the reports sponsor, Kortext , and invited guests to discuss the following essay question: How will AI change the university experience for the next generation? Are we explicitly teaching these skills within the curriculum?

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Share rubrics in advance, collaborate with students to create or adjust rubrics, and encourage students to self-assess before submitting assignments (Brookhart, 2013). Rahmat, PsyD, is a core faculty member at Antioch University, where she specializes in compassion-focused pedagogy, trauma-sensitive mindfulness, and mindful self-compassion.

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