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History hiring in the pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: In 2020–21, history faculty job postings hit their lowest point since the American Historical Association started tracking openings in 1975, at just 347 positions total. H-Net, another popular job listing site, showed a similar year-over-year increase, with 670 jobs in history and area studies for 2021–22.

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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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NIH Grant to Study Infertility, Health Among Women of Mexican Heritage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The goal of the study, which is co-funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Office of Research on Women's Health, divisions of the National Institutes of Health, is to help improve health outcomes through early screenings and interventions.

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Open Access: A Benefit Not a Burden That is Worth the Cost

HEPI

Their question also downplays the significant public good that the mandate has achieved, including the transformative effect of the REF OA requirements implemented in 2016, which produced a huge boost in the accessibility of UK research. This is particularly pertinent at a time when humanities departments are under threat.

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Educational Institutions Play Vital Role in Teaching American Public

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.” in September 2016.

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Reflections on Fitzgerald and the Qatar World Cup (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In 2016, I traveled overseas to teach two general education courses at Carnegie Mellon University’s campus in Qatar. They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. men’s soccer star Christian Pulisic ?

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Tony Li, Tomato Education International

The PIE News

This trip occurred in the UK in 2016, at the inception of my business journey with Funliving.com, a student accommodation booking platform. Reading history makes us wiser. Despite advancements in productivity and ongoing global changes, human nature remains unchanged. Best work trip/worst work trip?