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Scott Fitzgerald’s definition of intelligence. They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. ” The history of Western colonialism, the mistreatment of workers in Qatar and the whataboutery of FIFA can make us feel hopeless.
Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of LiberalArts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Two new hires are expected this year.
However, if we adopt a more restrictive definition of the humanities, only 4 percent of college graduates in 2020 majored in traditional humanistic fields, including English, history, philosophy and foreign languages and literature. Tavárez is assistant professor of history at Queens College of the City University of New York.
Which leaves the liberalarts, 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 liberalarts shrink to an appropriate size?
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Meredith College, a private women’s liberalarts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic.
A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.
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