Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I learned very quickly that academia demands a degree of performance. Furthermore, instructors in the humanities are well situated for this timely introspection. Because humanities courses ask students to think critically on important issues, it makes sense that we have a duty to remove, or at least adjust, our masks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

He bases that on his research, which focuses largely on how underrepresented and under-researched populations are socialized within academia as graduate students and early career faculty, as well as how they make meaning of student success. Ford is the only person in his family who has an advanced degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. in philosophy.

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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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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

It draws attention to issues such as low pay, lack of job security, limited benefits, and the increasing reliance on contingent labor in academia. It raises concerns about "hypercredentialism," where degrees become mere "tickets to be punched" without necessarily leading to meaningful work or sufficient income to repay student loans.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To meet the growing demand, many are developing distinctive degrees, certificates, and other programs that help graduate students, faculty, and workforce professionals develop the required skills. DEI-focused degree programs like those at UK serve as pathways to chief diversity officer (CDO) and other DEI leadership roles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Dr. Corey D. He also co-directed documentary film, “Fifeville.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Walker-Griffea’s career in academia began at age 21. Her undergraduate degree is in radio/television/film: news and public affairs. She earned a Master of Education degree in guidance and counseling and a doctorate in child development (the doctoral program defined child development as continuing until age 21).

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). He then goes on to recite statistics about hundreds of program closures in the humanities right across the United States over the past decade.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Aspiring to become a researcher and science communicator, Ealy is driven to understand humanity and science’s place in the world as it is. Academia can be incredibly disconnected from the world around it, but my community keeps me grounded.” The work that I am doing is actively contributing to that,” she says. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

She’s found a way to pursue both, having earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and now working toward a Ph.D. She says that her support system – made up of her parents, graduate school friends, and friends outside of academia – has been crucial to her journey and her well-being.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 4, 2024

Metzler, a true visionary in academia, healthcare, and diversity, passed away on Saturday, March 23, at his home in Grenada. ” With degrees in law and human rights from both Columbia University and the University of Oxford, and doctorates from Aberdeen, his academic journey was distinguished. Christopher A. Christopher A.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In June, Harvard University announced a $200 million gift to launch the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, an academic center dedicated to the study of one of humanity’s most pressing threats. Academia is founded on the premise of truth seeking. In May, Stanford University announced a $1.1

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

Curricula Wooster offers over 50 academic programs in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and arts. Wooster does not have any graduate degree programs. Degrees Awarded by Major In the most recent report, 18 majors had graduates Wooster Degrees Conferred.

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GlobalHigherEd

APRIL 18, 2017

Her main field of expertise and research is international and European human rights law, particularly on freedom of expression. CEU’s case exposes both the erosion of academic freedom around the world, and deepening challenges to democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Hungary and in the EU generally. Kris Olds. ~~~~~~~.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Agbomi, who completed her bachelor’s degree at Clemson, first credits Jesus, her Lord and Savior, without whom she said she would not have been able to accomplish what she has done the past two years. We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.” This year, she’s a student ambassador for the NIH R25 program.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Rhyme: a mnemonic device to aid recitation of verse around the human campfire.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Agbomi, who completed her bachelor’s degree at Clemson, first credits Jesus, her Lord and Savior, without whom she said she would not have been able to accomplish what she has done the past two years. We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.” This year, she’s a student ambassador for the NIH R25 program.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Importance of This Type of Journalism in the 2020s: In the 2020s, higher education is undergoing significant challenges, to include skyrocketing tuition, an increasing reliance on adjunct faculty, and concerns over the value of a college degree.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Rhyme: a mnemonic device to aid recitation of verse around the human campfire.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

We have to really take a step back and think about who's training the teachers with degrees, certification, and licensure -- and that is college faculty. Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Donna Y.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

While this problem is often framed by academia as a decrease in the supply of students—the so-called “enrollment cliff,” the hot job market, and so on—I think it is better understood as a failure to respond to changing demand and new opportunities. Meanwhile, a significant and growing percentage of U.S.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. As most Chinese students are in the UK for a short period of time – as short as less than a year for a master’s degree – they spend little time integrating into British society as the pressure to graduate is already high.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

High-profile examples of student debt crises and underemployment among graduates have fueled skepticism about the value of a traditional college degree, leading some students to pursue alternative pathways, such as trade schools, apprenticeships, or immediate entry into the workforce.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

Drawing on over two decades in academia, Michele Poulos specializes in general psychology, social psychology, and human growth and development. Before embarking on her professional journey, Poulos attended Arizona State University, where she obtained a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education and teaching in 2001.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For one student it was simply passing along a word of encouragement and empowering them to finish their bachelor’s degree despite being out of school 15 years. While the pandemic has brought about many changes to academia, building relationships will continue to be important to students, faculty and leadership moving forward.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This mind-set is driven by the increasing importance of “corporate” leadership models as well as the growing predominance of STEM research culture in academia. Despite a publication record I’m proud of and my recent promotion to full professor, I have to admit that lately I feel worn down, too.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Although she has reached such heights in her scholarship, she began her college journey with little information or direction about academia, in part because she lacked counseling in high school. “I She also received a 2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association. She completed her Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A special feature section from CUNY's Hunter College in the report about the rise in labor activity in higher ed from 2022 to 2023 illustrates the quickening pace of student worker organizing, to that degree that in the past year and a half, student worker unionization growth has surpassed that of faculty.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 16, 2022

My background is in Educational Neuroscience, applying how the human brain learns to improve teaching environments. While many students think a doctorate is only for those interested in academia, I would argue that these critical research skills can and will help you in a broad range of careers.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For one student it was simply passing along a word of encouragement and empowering them to finish their bachelor’s degree despite being out of school 15 years. While the pandemic has brought about many changes to academia, building relationships will continue to be important to students, faculty and leadership moving forward.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Explaining or discussing faith can ignite heated, passionate and explosive debates in academia. Over time, the degree to which institutions align themselves with a particular faith waxes and wanes. Blog: Just Explain It to Me! And yet, faith has played and continues to play a large part in higher education.

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Continuous Learning Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Human bodies were not meant to sit still for 90 minutes or 75 minutes or even 50 minutes. I think if we all just centered the humanity and gave people the benefit of the doubt in our educational settings, no one would ever need any accommodations because we would already have the structures in place to create a human education system."

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Q: What inspired you to move to an ed-tech company after a career in academia? At Coursera, I’m looking forward to refining this system—and specifically, how we can leverage AI and tech to remove some of the more manual work and allow educators to focus their energy on the activities that truly require a human touch.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

The student will then insert a footer to the assignment containing a statement noting the degree to which AI was used in the completion of the task. ChatGPT and AI text generators: Should Academia adapt or resist?” XRDS: Crossroads, the ACM Magazine for Students 29 (3): 30–35. Harvard Business Publishing. link] Naidu, Edwin.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Academia is a calling. ” Dr. Unfortunately, the campuses are also unlikely to fix the decades-long urban housing cost crisis or the paucity of tenure-track jobs, especially in the humanities. programs, especially in the humanities, are likely to shrink, irrespective of unionization. I suspect that Ph.D.

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