Definition History Humanities 
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 7, 2025
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. You might be saying to yourself that there is, or can be, considerable overlap between experiential and applied forms of learning.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. These values run contrary to systemic oppression.
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Faculty Focus
JANUARY 7, 2025
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. You might be saying to yourself that there is, or can be, considerable overlap between experiential and applied forms of learning.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”
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. in economics as it does in humanities fields in most American universities?
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 18, 2023
In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. ” All these responses and more have made me consider the question, “Can art be experienced or art history taught without someone becoming angry?” A chair isn’t art!” And vice versa.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 11, 2022
Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. Rising student loan debt and tuition need to be addressed.
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