Remove 2017 Remove Academia Remove Humanities
article thumbnail

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 article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

article thumbnail

Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

SRHE

This was often mentioned spontaneously by interviewees, in contrast with the research we have conducted on other categories of staff in the HE sector, including as part of a previous SRHE award (Moreau and Robertson, 2017 , 2019 ). She blogs here. Lucie Wheeler is a Research Assistant in education.

university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Building Relationships and Student Engagement: What Students Really Want and Need From Professors

Faculty Focus

As a result, this not only promoted perceptions of faculty caring, but students welcomed these interactions with their instructors (Post et al, 2017). While the pandemic has brought about many changes to academia, building relationships will continue to be important to students, faculty and leadership moving forward. link] Post, J.,

Students 113
article thumbnail

Building Relationships and Student Engagement: What Students Really Want and Need From Professors

Faculty Focus

As a result, this not only promoted perceptions of faculty caring, but students welcomed these interactions with their instructors (Post et al, 2017). While the pandemic has brought about many changes to academia, building relationships will continue to be important to students, faculty and leadership moving forward. link] Post, J.,

article thumbnail

Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. 2017; Liu et al., 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012).

Students 102
article thumbnail

Teaching Marketing Students to Create GenAI-driven Social Media Content 

Faculty Focus

The assignment created a bridge between academia and business (Rohm, 2019), and emphasized active learning by requiring students to develop a style guide (“Sprout Social”, 2024) and use GenAi tools such as ChatGPT, an AI tool owned by Open AI, to generate social media content for a real business. References Bruns, A.

article thumbnail

Spain's universities debate ban on taking political views

Inside Higher Ed

The campaigners who brought that case, Academia for Coexistence, have sent an open letter to Spanish senators asking them to scrap an article in Spain’s long-debated higher education reform law, which has passed the lower house of Parliament and is pending approval by the upper chamber.