Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. What’s behind this decline? No complex problem has a monocausal explanation.

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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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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. Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. The majority of data was pulled from records between 2018 and 2021. For example, the rate was 2.13% for humanities degree holders, 2.0%

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And there are plans to expand the project, using the map as a “live resource” that grows as more research projects which are categorised under one of four themes: arts and humanities; medicine, health and life sciences; physical sciences, engineering and mathematics; and social sciences are added, London Higher said.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” Retractions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

It relied on 2009–2021 data from the U.S. Across 10 fields of study, engineering and computer science majors experienced the highest median returns, exceeding 13%, followed by business, health, and math and science majors, up to 13%. million Americans. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for 2.9

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

It is this technology-enabled ease and efficiency that I thought could benefit my teacher candidates (TCs) in my fine arts for elementary education course during their busy end-of-semester season. in response to user prompts, there is no ignoring the flurry of both concerns and hopes for its use in a variety of professional fields.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

For the last decade, computer science majors have become highly prized by many colleges and universities. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making , melding interdisciplinary research across electrical engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research and brain and cognitive sciences. The school offers a B.S.

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The PIE News

MARCH 21, 2023

This led to the launch of an ambitious collaboration and learning platform in 2021, the Innovation for African Universities, with a mandate to support universities in building their entrepreneurship ecosystems by establishing the necessary resources, structures, and policies, working in partnership with UK universities and industry partners.

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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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The PIE News

MAY 16, 2024

billion budget allocated to Horizon Europe from 2021-27. The European Union’s tenth program for research and innovation must take a long-term view beyond current geopolitical challenges and continue to collaborate openly with non-EU partners, the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities has said.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

Along with the ADT programs, Coastline offers a certificate of achievement in business and six associate degree programs in the arts and sciences: American studies, arts and humanities, general business, science and math, social and behavioral sciences, and sociology.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

A review of the calibration of the scheme is a way to “avoid political traps now” and give parties maximum room for manoeuvre after the election, noted David Willetts, who was minister for universities and science from 2010 until 2014. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. This program presents an opportunity to help rectify that and also to understand the lasting impact that cannabis has had on human history and evolution, she said.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As the pandemic kept us all at home during the summer of 2021, I found myself reading things I might not normally have the time or inclination to read. Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic sciences with Robert J. Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic sciences with Robert J.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Incorporating four simple practices through collaborative learning communities could be a game changer for teachers willing to embrace a more humane approach to teaching and learning. However, contemplating the necessary ingredients to cultivate student success is multifaceted and heavily influenced by a multiplicity of factors.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

From fall 2021 to fall 2022, first-time enrollment increased by 8%, and international graduate applications grew by 26%. International graduate student enrollment continues to rebound since the pandemic froze students in place, and new countries and regions favoriting a U.S. since being deferred by the pandemic in 2020. While the U.S.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Dr. Suzanne Ortega Survey data between Fall 2021 and Fall 2022 shows that there was a 26% increase in the total number of international graduate applications received by U.S. The report titled, “International Graduate Applications and Enrollment: Fall 2022,” details the responses from 370 institutions, which represents 48.7%

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. Unanswered Questions. So why was Chinese targeted? “Why was Chinese language and culture cut?

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

“The four-year degree isn’t working for a lot of people,” Lori Carrell, the chancellor of the University of Minnesota at Rochester, told her colleagues around the table, noting higher education’s high cost and low degree attainment, which has “squandered human potential at times.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Thus, online learning may have favorably trained students to aggregate and integrate many forms of technology at one time to enrich the learning experience (Law-Penrose, 2021). Furthermore, episode length will also need to be considered because lengthy podcasts that are laden with complex information are an ineffective use of the technology.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2023

The UK’s economic growth and its global position as a leader of science and innovation cannot be secured without skills. Current skills shortages within the UK are well documented, with the Federation of Small Businesses reporting that 80% of small firms faced difficulties recruiting applicants with suitable skills during 2021/22.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. “Trust and institutional culture are broken,” the first of the five points said.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

However, the ‘dog-eat-dog’ culture of Higher Education (HE), austerity measures and more are leading to harmful consequences, and stakeholders with protected characteristics are worst affected ( Berg, Huijbens, and Larsen 2016 ; UKRI 2021 ; Bhopal 2020 ; Blell, Liu and Verma 2022 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As employers grapple with economic constraints of the post-pandemic world and workers re-evaluate their expectations for flexibility, equity and respect in the workplace, higher education continues to lag in preparing the workforce’s rising generation. At the same time, the global talent shortage is amplified by the growing skills gap.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

percent over 2021. Even as we fixate on headline news, the true drivers of transformation occur out of sight. It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.

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University Business

JUNE 21, 2023

As a result, President Gordon Gee is merging the College of the Creative Arts and Reed College of Media, heralding it as a “creative and innovative” transformation that recognizes its purpose to slash costs and improve administrative efficiency. The college merger is the second announced in two years.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Thus, online learning may have favorably trained students to aggregate and integrate many forms of technology at one time to enrich the learning experience (Law-Penrose, 2021). Furthermore, episode length will also need to be considered because lengthy podcasts that are laden with complex information are an ineffective use of the technology.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They are studies in human vulnerability. ” Reflecting on “fifty years of living with Crohn’s,” he “consider[s] how Western medicine’s turn from an ‘art of healing’ toward a ‘science of medicine’ deeply affects both medical practitioners and their patients.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And we did the first full degree program in e-commerce, the first master's of arts in teaching with the Internet. Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership. A Conversation With Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00. Higher Ed Leadership. Inside Higher Ed. Weekly Wisdom.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

The questions raised by violence are often addressed by courses in fields such as gender studies, but I am arguing they are also the province of the arts, the humanities and the social sciences more broadly. I make this claim well aware of the vast differences between most U.S. Will they do nothing, stay and fight, or leave?

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