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in Interdisciplinary Arts from Hampshire College; M.A. Although she did not have extensive training in public health, she dove into research, finding books, articles, and speaking circuits to learn more. in Sociology of Education with a policy concentration; Teachers College Columbia University; and Ph.D.
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9, 2023) Following many English professors’ repetitive romanticized myths that falsely oppose subjectivity and objectivity, Newman grasps onto “brain science. 9, 2023) Following many English professors’ repetitive romanticized myths that falsely oppose subjectivity and objectivity, Newman grasps onto “brain science.”
Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. ” But he said there are financial issues at smaller colleges that “are general problems, not just of humanities. percent,” the association wrote.
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Notre Dame is one of several institutions experimenting with unconventional cybersecurity awareness training in the form of festivals, art installations and role-playing games. The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. Cybersecurity Festivals. Cyberthreats are the “No.
” 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.
In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8
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With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz.
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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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’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.
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What can the arts do to heal and help us see a better future?” As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. Theater is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses art, literature, history, design and more, Lee notes. Theater is a communal experience.
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From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. While we certainly share these concerns, we do remain relatively optimistic about one aspect of higher education: learning to write. an academic discipline), social worlds (e.g.,
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” 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.
When Dr. Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.”
Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size? ” Wait a second.
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They are studies in human vulnerability. ” (All quoted passages in this article are taken from press catalogs or websites.) Column: Intellectual Affairs These seasonal overviews of forthcoming books from university presses usually focus on public and topical concerns: technology, the election cycle, pandemic impacts and so on.
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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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