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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

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. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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Review of Peter Burke's "Ignorance: A Global History"

Inside Higher Ed

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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New Analysis of Ph.D. Debt, Job Placements

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A new analysis of federal Survey of Earned Doctorates data by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences finds a substantial racial divide in who is accumulating debt in doctoral studies: from 2015 to 2020, approximately 55 percent of Native American and Black students with a Ph.D. History Ph.D.s Humanities Ph.D.s

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Helping People Be Their Best

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 1996, she returned to campus as a dean, and, in 2015, she became president of her alma mater. Her positivity is not naïveté, says Dr. Tim Kinsella, a professor of history at Ursuline for 34 years. It’s her faith and her Ursuline heritage of human dignity that resonates, he adds. She’s such a pleasure to talk to and be with.

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“Fighting talk, and absolutely right at last to be so.” Sir Anthony Seldon responds to the new Blueprint from Universities UK

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Sir Anthony Seldon was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Buckingham from 2015 to 2020. When I became a Vice Chancellor in 2015, I was proud to be in such a distinguished and diverse company, but also perplexed. Universities have woken bolt upright to the fact that they can be, indeed must be, masters of their own futures.

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At Princeton, a Contained Debate About a Contested Statue

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Witherspoon is a critical figure in Princeton’s history, often credited with saving the then-College of New Jersey from financial ruin. He is also important in American history, as the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, which he did at great personal risk. However, Witherspoon owned two slaves.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

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in 2015,” ChatGPT replied in a sample presented on the OpenAI website. If Columbus arrived in the US in 2015 … he might be surprised to find out that many people don’t view him as a hero anymore; in fact, some people argue that he was a brutal conqueror who enslaved and killed native people. Remind Students to Think.

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