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Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 16, 2023
Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. percent from 2016 to 2020—the largest drop since it began its survey in 1958. percent,” the association wrote.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
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 article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.
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Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 2, 2022
In 2016, I traveled overseas to teach two general education courses at Carnegie Mellon University’s campus in Qatar. In the same way, I hoped students would see Qatar’s transformations as containing many political possibilities while recognizing the country had much work to do in terms of human rights.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” We shouldn’t be surprised that the decline in humanities faculty has led to a decline in humanities majors.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 15, 2023
Participants came from a wide variety of institutional types, including doctoral universities, regional schools, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and minority-serving institutions. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4% drop in real wages, the third straight sharp decline, for a cumulative loss of 7.5%
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 4, 2023
” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students. million Andrew W.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. For students who started community college in 2016, which means a portion of their six years overlapped with COVID, 35% obtained a credential.
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