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.

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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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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

And while USF, like many universities, saw a leveling off during the COVID-19 pandemic amid unprecedented strains placed on students and staff alike, the model underscores the importance of human interaction as critical to student success in a post-COVID world.

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University Business

MAY 2, 2023

In the 2020-21 school year, Humanities majors experienced a drop in graduate percentage across the United States. The amount of bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has been steadily decreasing by the tens of thousands since 2010, which is the most the field has ever lost. The post Is the humanities field ‘endangered’?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

For example, a professor can use the built-in camera on their phone or laptop to record a simple “talking head” video where they are speaking directly to the camera (Scagnoli, 2012; Costa, 2020, 70-71). Michael Wesch (as cited in EDUCAUSE, 2020) highlights the importance of good lighting, clear audio, and a stable recording setup.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2024

But measures introduced by the former Morrison government that doubled the price of some degrees to incentivise students into other courses didn’t dissuade him, nor did recent cost-of-living increases.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

percent between 2020 and 2021, the steepest decline ever for the NSF’s annual census of new Ph.D.s. That’s 2,974 fewer than in 2020. awarded between the 2019 and 2020 academic years. The survey period for the forthcoming report ran from July 2020 to June 2021, a full year of the pandemic.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI technologies are designed to simulate human intelligence and perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language and engaging in interactive conversation. The integration of AI in education holds great potential for transforming teaching and learning experiences (Hussain et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Joy Gaston Gayles will become head of the NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development (ELPHD), effective Jul. Her scholarly work involves matters of DEI, justice, women and people of color in STEM, and intercollegiate athletics. Hikes Woman of Color in the Academy Award.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. We pretty much have three options as international humanities majors. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.

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Higher Education Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By Vickie Choitz and Louis Soares “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. Arundhati RoyFinancial Times, April 3, 2020 In the early months of COVID-19, novelist Arundhati Roy suggested that. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.”

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HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Christopher Smith , Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2020/21, there were about 18,000 arts and humanities doctoral candidates. How much public money should be spent and on what kinds of arts and humanities PhDs?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Culture is the lens through which individuals perceive and make sense of their surroundings, influencing human development and cognition. Culture is also part of human development and influences cognitive, social, and psychological aspects of human development. Systems thinking for principals of learning-focused schools.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. The SED shows that American universities awarded 55,283 doctoral degrees in 2020—15 percent more than a decade earlier. is clearly growing.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

than the general population, according to a new study in Nature: Human Behavior. The study involved combining national-level data on education, income and university rankings with a 2017–2020 survey of 7,204 U.S.-based Current tenure-track faculty members are up to 25 more times likely to have a parent with a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A new analysis of federal Survey of Earned Doctorates data by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences finds a substantial racial divide in who is accumulating debt in doctoral studies: from 2015 to 2020, approximately 55 percent of Native American and Black students with a Ph.D. From 1990 to 2020, the share of new arts and humanities Ph.D.s

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

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. From June 2020 to the end of May 2021, just 347 positions were listed with the AHA Career Center, a significant decline from the year before. at all U.S.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI technologies are designed to simulate human intelligence and perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language and engaging in interactive conversation. The integration of AI in education holds great potential for transforming teaching and learning experiences (Hussain et al.,

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The PIE News

JANUARY 30, 2023

The University of Bradford, which had 1,815 international students in the 2020/21 academic year, said it had seen an increase in overseas interest in postgraduate taught courses since the pandemic.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

2020), I am already grateful for customer service chat bots that allow me to schedule kids’ doctor appointments while waiting in carpool pick-up lines, and for automated digital writing assistants that catch my grammar and spelling errors as I madly fire off a manuscript between committee meetings and fixing dinner. References Burrow, L.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

For example, a professor can use the built-in camera on their phone or laptop to record a simple “talking head” video where they are speaking directly to the camera (Scagnoli, 2012; Costa, 2020, 70-71). Michael Wesch (as cited in EDUCAUSE, 2020) highlights the importance of good lighting, clear audio, and a stable recording setup.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. percentage points each year on average between 2013 and 2020. ” Accounting for time to tenure, the researchers estimate that between 2013 and 2020, 45,309 Ph.D.s

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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.

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. As with so much else mid-2020, this model had to be abandoned.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. A theory of human motivation. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? Canrinus, E.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

Faculty can create interactive simulations of how smoking, diseases, and other negative (or positive) circumstances affect organs and body functions, going beyond what’s possible with just observing a human patient. Augmented reality (AR) is a powerful tool offering a variety of benefits to university teaching. References: Garzón, J.,

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

since being deferred by the pandemic in 2020. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that since fall 2020, total graduate enrollment has grown by 1.2% , undercut by a 1.2% However, China’s rate of applications has dwindled by 19% since fall 2020, while India’s rate of applications has grown by 94%.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

Faculty should be able to provide an exceptional active learning environment for our students that helps students achieve success of the desired course and/or program outcomes (Camacho & Conceicao, 2020). After all, we are real people—and the human connection will lead all to positive outcomes. References Authement, R.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lang reviews the vast literature on this subject which indicates our minds are easily distracted but may be able to focus intensely under certain conditions (2020). Also, as teachers we should have empathy for value and purposefully foster attention in the classroom (Lang, 2020). 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

2020), and 2) focusing on person-centered mental health interventions (see Crane et al., 2020; Parr et al., Journal of Medical Humanities , 26 (2/3), 141–158. 2016; Bury et al., 2019; Cassidy et al., I also recommend engaging with the autistic community directly. R., & Hedley, D. 10.1007/s10803-020-04425-3. Cassidy, S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. She was hired by SIUE in 2020 as part of a cluster hire designed specifically to recruit faculty members of color. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians also in 2019; and a fellowship with the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2020. Anti-Asian reported incidents jumped from 279 in 2020 to 746 in 2021, according to FBI statistics.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Some students already possess a well-established sense of community in academic and non-academic digital spaces (Plotts, 2020), which they bring into their learning environments for additional support. Social media reflects the spectrum of human emotion and can be a powerful educational tool. Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 5.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2023

Zora Neale Hurston In 2020, large-scale protests were being organized across the country in response to the unjust murders of Breonna Taylor. Brandy Jones The tragic reality is that since 2020, there have been numerous instances of Black women being killed by police, sparking a renewed conversation around systemic racism and police brutality.

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