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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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Pain as a Hallmark of Human Experience

Inside Higher Ed

He called instead for a new man who was willing to accept pain and discipline and adopt a cold, detached outlook on human life. Pain, like loss, is one of the hallmarks of human existence. Pain is an essential part of the human experience. A chief justification for medically-assisted suicide is to relieve unnecessary suffering.

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Dr. Ruth J. Simmons Takes Readers ‘Up Home’ in New Memoir

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It’s an inspirational message from an inspirational woman who will go down in history as one of the most transformative leaders in higher education.

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Reflections on Fitzgerald and the Qatar World Cup (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. Like my courses in the United States, I engaged my Qatari students in a critical history of the United States, one that centered the history of race.

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Baylor University Dedicates Statues of First Black Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2017, Walker was given Baylor’s Medal of Service for Contributions to the Professions, Christian Ministry. Walker would go on to serve the public as well, spending 32 years in California’s Department of Mental Health helping patients get assistance to transition back into jobs and the community. In memorializing my father, Rev.

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Penn’s Sniegowski Named Earlham President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Paul Sniegowski Since his appointment as dean in 2017, Sniegowski has been responsible for the direction of Penn’s liberal arts undergraduate curricula, programs and students in academic departments and interdisciplinary programs across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

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Tips for Pecha Kucha Presentations

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Now, instead of regurgitating a number that will not be remembered one minute after it is spoken, the speaker is focusing on the relevance of the tower and its place in history. A point about human diversity might start with an image of a crowd, then of distinct individuals, then of a small number of individuals from different cultures.