Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

When you think about our history, were the first community college in the state of California whose accreditation was revoked, and to go from that in 2006 to be where were at now and to be on the cutting edge, that tells you that transformation can happen, but transformation can happen in communities where we look like the students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Image: In 2020–21, history faculty job postings hit their lowest point since the American Historical Association started tracking openings in 1975, at just 347 positions total. H-Net, another popular job listing site, showed a similar year-over-year increase, with 670 jobs in history and area studies for 2021–22.

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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. The ROI of a History Degree. Strategies for Recruiting Students to the Humanities: A Comprehensive Overview. Princeton Review.

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The PIE News

JULY 18, 2024

This meant that I was excited when I got to the city, and knew that it was the place for me to study for my degree. I’m grateful to have been building this skill set since I started my undergraduate Humanities degree. As part of my undergraduate degree, I was able to spend a year studying overseas, in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Gray Associates

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Discover the real story behind History majors’ career success. Despite common misconceptions, humanities graduates—especially History majors—are thriving in diverse, high-paying careers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Georgetown University and Howard University have been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund the establishment of a center for medical humanities. year grant from the Mellon Foundation will go towards the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice, which aims to reduce health disparities in D.C.

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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. ” Surely, many of the available explanations have varying degrees of validity.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

” 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. was risky; there were few positions when I took my degree in 1975.

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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 institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Challenges to Qualify Francis-Begay references a program at the University of Arizona—the Arizona Native Scholars Grant—a grant program that promises tuition, and college fees for Native American Arizona residents pursuing their first bachelor’s degree. This is for individuals who have not already earned a bachelor’s degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The following are three considerations for educators serving this critical higher education sector to consider: Access As expressed in an article I wrote earlier this year, AI should be used as a tool to enhance human interaction rather than replace it altogether.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There’s a pervasive sense among many adults with humanities degrees that In the wake of deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodernism, semiotics and the cultural, linguistic and discursive turns, literary studies, in particular, like other core humanities disciplines, is in deep trouble. The field has fragmented.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

Smallwood has been appointed dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). He served as professor and chair of the department of history and political science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

in History from Coastal Carolina University, and a certificate in Program Evaluation from Florida State University; M.Ed. Dr. Erik Hines, one of Fords mentors and a professor in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University, credits Ford with creating a strong, relevant and timely research agenda.

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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

How could a degree in History and Politics be so useful in financial technology? Humanities and social sciences degrees have come under attack for their lack of utility, seemingly not useful in a world of big data and where artificial intelligence could soon penetrate every part of our daily lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

degree in Human Services, Social Justice Advocacy. “We We provide an education for a diverse group of people, and many of them are part of groups that have been experiencing social injustices,” said Dr. Denise Rossilli, an associate professor and coordinator of the human services program at HCCC. “We HCCC is not alone.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

The conference was co-sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and the NJ Council of County Colleges, and it included over 100 people from around the state. Its unapologetic focus was the state of the humanities in community colleges. History: 3.6 It was affirming. Business majors: 3.7 Physics: 3.4 Language/Lit: 3.7

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The vote eliminated majors in art, economics, English, history, mathematics, philosophy, secondary education, sociology, and theology and religious studies, and an M.A. in English and humanities. The board of Marymount University, in Virginia, voted unanimously to eliminate 10 programs, mostly in the liberal arts, on Friday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Jennifer Borland Jennifer Borland has been appointed director of Oklahoma State University’s Center for the Humanities. She is a professor of art history at the university. Borland holds a bachelor’s degree in the history of art from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in art history from Stanford University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. We pretty much have three options as international humanities majors. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.

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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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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Japan’s Tsukuba University has opened the country’s first Japanese degree granting branch campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The branch campus will offer four-year undergraduate degrees in Japanese, English and Malaysian, as approved by MEXT, including the first bachelor of Arts and Science to be awarded in Malaysia.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 3, 2023

Last month, for the first time in Manhattanville's history, tenured faculty in the arts and humanities were pushed away. To survive, Manhattanville College has chosen to cut full-time faculty, grow its administration, and create new interdisciplinary degrees. The Manhattanville faculty is the heart of the institution.

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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. His scholarly focus is on African American religion, philosophy, history, and culture. Dr. Corey D. He also co-directed documentary film, “Fifeville.”

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Net price after aid is $26,834 Curricula Wabash offers a diverse array of academic programs across three divisions: Natural Sciences, Humanities and Arts, and Social Sciences. ” Continuity of Leadership Wabash has a history of stable and effective leadership, providing consistent direction and long-term strategic planning.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The histories in the state may include college charters based on special missions, geography, or the need for specialized programs. And in those states, there are often differences between the flagship and the land grant institutions, and much of that is based on differences in degree programs. So take a look, below.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

history, Tufts University; M.A., His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Then there is a fourth tradition, which represented a distinctively American contribution: A focus on human capital formation, local and regional economic development, entertainment and sports, and community service. Offer more coherent and integrated degree pathways that consist of aligned, synergistic courses. I don’t think so.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Matos Rodríguez The latest grant will allow CUNY to launch New York’s first dedicated graduate degree program in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies. The project was created with support from the foundation to drive change across CUNY's 25 campuses and advance racial and social justice initiatives. Dr. Félix V. CUNY is grateful to the Andrew W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued. It changed her life, and she told States that she wanted to continue studying with him, which she did, earning a master’s degree in dramatic arts from UC Santa Barbara and then a Ph.D.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

Recognizing the profound impact of military history on global events, as well as the importance of understanding the experiences and contributions of those who have served, higher education institutions are increasingly creating and expanding military and veteran studies programs. Louis (UMSL), and Eastern Kentucky University (EKU).

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

Government-defined Levels of higher education include Levels 4 and 5, placing degrees at Level 6, with postgraduate Masters at 7 and doctorates at 8. Some of these deliver higher education in partnership with other providers which have their own degree-awarding powers, relying on them to provide their students with degrees.

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