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Report: HBCU Humanities Programs Show Resilience Amid National Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences offers promising insights into the state of humanities programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), even as humanities degree completions decline across the nation. In 2022, HBCUs awarded 8.8% In 2022, HBCUs awarded 13.5%

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Humane Ingenuity 45: What AI Tells Us About Art

Dan Cohen

( “The Library of the Distant Future,” as envisioned by Midjourney, when I was let into the beta in March 2022.). Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email. That is a different sort of delight, and art.

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Making Arts and Humanities matter

HEPI

Tomorrow, HEPI will be publishing a report on a university turnaround and later this month we will be publishing a new paper on the state of the humanities in UK universities. Things are not getting any easier for the arts and humanities in Higher Education. The post Making Arts and Humanities matter appeared first on HEPI.

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Humanizing Data for Student Success

University Business

In January of 2022, Sarah Marshall, an academic advocate at the University of South Florida, reached out to a sophomore student in danger of failing most of her courses. She was a first-generation college student from a single-parent household who had been placed on academic probation and was on the verge of being academically dismissed.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On NIH: Layoffs And a 'Break' For Infectious Diseases

Inside Higher Ed

Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary is aiming to disrupt the National Institutes of Health, which sends billions to universities for research. a spreader of debunked theories on the supposed harms of vaccines, to lead the sprawling Department of Health and Human Services has raised alarm among academics. Kennedy Jr.,

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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

” What he cites is not scientific and excludes basic humanity and context, the fundamentals of the historical human sciences. There is a significant literature from the 1930s on of which Newman, Heller, and too many humanities professors seem unaware. Illogically, we remained isolationist and separatist.

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Technology investments hit steep declines in 2022 due to budget and faculty shortages

University Business

Higher education institutions are in a race to replace 20-year-old administrative systems to modernize the faculty and student online experience, yet new findings show that investments across student, finance and human capital management technology systems dipped harshly following a surge in 2022.