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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. Of these 634 jobs, 358 were on the tenure track, an increase from both 2020–21 and 2019–20. in 2019 and 2020, based on federal data.

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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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US ambassador urges more study opportunities for US students in India

The PIE News

According to the Institute of International Education Open Doors Report 2020, over 3,300 US students studied in India in 2018-2019, which further fell to 1,736 students in 2019-20, according to the US Department of State. When I read many great religious, philosophical, historical texts of India it changed my life and perspective.

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Educating the Next Generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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University of Phoenix: Training Folks For Robowork

Higher Education Inquirer

The Higher Education Inquirer has published a number of articles on robocolleges, robostudents, and robowork, noting that the University of Phoenix has been a pioneer in the evolution of making humans more machine-like (or in science fiction terms, cyborgs). It's not known how many humans are involved in teaching or content creation.

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Educating the Next Generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Teaching Students, Not Subjects

Faculty Focus

Nick Shackleton-Jones (2019) provides a neurological explanation of this principle in his Affective Context Model of learning. Prior to the relatively recent development of formal education in human history, students learned important lessons not in classrooms, but from stories told by elders. References Carey, B. 2014, May 19).