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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

Faculty Focus

Experiential learning is on the rise (Roberts & Welton 2022), perhaps because it can be a pathway to increased student engagement. To alleviate some confusion, my goal here is to explain the hallmarks of both applied humanities and experiential learning approaches, as well as what each mode of learning can offer to students.

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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.

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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Celebrating In Community In June 2022, California lawmakers moved to include a student housing grant totaling $80,389,000 in the 2022-2023 State Budget for the Compton Community College District to build their proposed 250+ bed student housing facility. So, Im grateful to be a part of history in this regard.

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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

Faculty Focus

Experiential learning is on the rise (Roberts & Welton 2022), perhaps because it can be a pathway to increased student engagement. To alleviate some confusion, my goal here is to explain the hallmarks of both applied humanities and experiential learning approaches, as well as what each mode of learning can offer to students.

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Op-Ed: Pride, History Propel LGBTQ+ Rights Forward

Insight Into Diversity

That these same labeled people grabbed hold of the word “pride” to name their movement was an act of civil disobedience against both history and language. LGBTQ+ History Month (October in the U.S.) History, of course, is a source of pride. History is another. History nourishes pride. Pride energizes history.

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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. H-Net, another popular job listing site, showed a similar year-over-year increase, with 670 jobs in history and area studies for 2021–22.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The institution has a storied history.