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Business and Health Professions Lead Faculty Growth as Humanities Decline, CUPA-HR Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In recent years, higher education institutions have faced increasing pressure to prioritize disciplines with clear career pathways over traditional liberal arts programs, according to a new report from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). Business also showed robust growth of 20.8%

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Q&A with Vanessa Walker, co-author of Major Problems in American History

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I am the Gordon Levin Associate Professor of Diplomatic History at Amherst College where I teach classes on US foreign relations, politics , social movements and the history and politics of human rights. politics, foreign relations and human rights. She received her B.A. from Whitman College and her M.A.

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The Hidden Crisis: Debt and Inequality Among Ph.D. Graduates

Higher Education Inquirer

Yet behind the prestige lies a growing financial burden that disproportionately affects students in the humanities, education, social sciences, and health-related fields. recipients in the humanities and arts are among the most likely to graduate with high levels of education-related debt. Yet the humanities are not alone.

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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The Power of Storytelling: Women Shaping Leadership and Change

HEPI

It connects us on a human level, fosters empathy, and confronts biases. According to Deloittes Global Human Capital Trends, organisations with inclusive cultures achieve 2.3 But beyond numbers lies the human impact. This is a story of resilience, inequity, and hope. At its best, storytelling is transformational.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. The 18th-century Jaquet-Droz automatamechanical dolls mimicking human actionsfurthered this vision (Riskin, 2016). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R. Spitale et al.

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The Collaborative AI Classroom: Teaching Students to Work With, Not Against, AI Tools

Faculty Focus

Further, they argue that ‘as students enter a workplace, their ability to work on human/computer “teams” is a critical cognitive skillset.’ This transparency transforms potential academic dishonesty into a learning opportunity about the value of human expertise and judgment. Practical Classroom Strategies 1. References Allen, L.