Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Modern Language this week released guidelines by which faculty members, department and institutions may evaluate publicly engaged humanities scholarship. The group says the guidelines are needed to drive the peer-review process for work published in nonacademic venues and that reaches audiences beyond academe. Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights. The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York believes in the dignity of all human beings and stands united against bigotry or hate of any kind on our campuses,” said Board of Trustees Chairman William C. Thompson Jr.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Grinnell College is launching a Department of African Diaspora Studies. The department will be led by a senior-level endowed chair who will design the curriculum and major. She said that the area of African diaspora studies offers an excellent lens through which to explore these issues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Joy Gaston Gayles will become head of the NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development (ELPHD), effective Jul.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. This semester, the first cohort of the Mandel program came together, comprised of students with interests in the arts, writing, communication or the humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary is aiming to disrupt the National Institutes of Health, which sends billions to universities for research. a spreader of debunked theories on the supposed harms of vaccines, to lead the sprawling Department of Health and Human Services has raised alarm among academics.

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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

MARCH 16, 2023

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.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

Column: Letters to the Editor To the editor: I am surprised to see Andrew Newman, chair of the English department at the University at Stony Brook, in his March 9 essay "The English Major, After the End, " repeating Nathan Heller’s unresearched and misrepresented “The End of the English Major,” The New Yorker (Mar.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s David Drake explores human and coyote coexistence in urban areas. Drake is a professor and extension wildlife specialist in the department of forest and wildlife ecology at the UW Madison. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Morgan State University has received $596,383 for a human behavior study regarding responses to environmental indications of fire, with the findings expected to help in improving fire safety systems and building design. Milke, professor and chair of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at the A. Gilliam, Jr.

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Helix Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Using AI as a replacement for writers will likely result in bland, generic content that lacks a needed human touch. Embarking on a thorough discovery process, taking a deep dive into your departments and programs to dig out all those small but important details that bring your content to life.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If we want to avoid just burning the whole humanities “thing” down, we need to start applying some of our fundamental humanities skills in order to communicate better with one another, to actually hear one another’s perspectives, and to build together toward something new rather than tearing each other down. (And

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Thomas announced an anti-trafficking collaboration with college and high school students in the communication department, according to a release. During Human Trafficking Month, “No Trafficking Zone” has partnered with the university to help educate the community and engage students in the efforts to combat human trafficking.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2024

Across the country, arts and humanities programs are being axed in a misguided attempt to balance public university budgets. From New York and North Carolina to North Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin, we are seeing academic departments, degrees and faculty reduced or eliminated.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute : David Drake, professor and extension wildlife specialist in the department of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, explores human and coyote coexistence in urban areas. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Gray Associates

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In December, Jamie Williamson learned that the coming spring semester, the 30th of his career on the English department faculty at the University of Vermont, would be his last.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this depiction, there is not a human teacher in sight, just robotic Miss Brainmocker. It’s safe to say, that in the future there is either no Department of Education or a Department that has made its peace with the role of technology-assisted instruction, or at least the role of artificial intelligence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). Jee Hang Lee For this FY 2022 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment & Training (E&T) National Partnership Grant , Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI) and American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) will assist as partners.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

Despite questions around the value of an English degree, graduates who earned one were found to possess similar rates of life satisfaction, peak salary earnings and unemployment rates to non-English degree graduates, according to a recent report by the Association of Departments of English (ADE), a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A&T) hosted a celebration on Monday, marking the 63rd anniversary of the A&T Four’s Woolworth’s Department Store sit-in. A&T’s 2023 Human Rights Medals to Chance D. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. The sit-in by then-freshmen Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair Jr.), Chancellor Harold L.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 14, 2023

Department of Education is listening! Their February 15 press release ( see our post about it ) provides opportunities to inform the Department on two separate but related topic areas. They asked the Department not to throw the bundled services exception out completely, but to include more guardrails. We’re learning how to fish.”

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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. He also leads work at Humanities Indicators and holds a Ph.D.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services’ Indian Health Service has awarded $1.6 The Indian Health Service (IHS) is a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for delivering health care services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. Constitution, HIS serves approximately 2.6

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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. Smallwood Arwin D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Manuel, professor and chair of Moore’s department. Erika Moore Title: Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida Age: 31 Education: B.S., biomedical engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Moore currently has six Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Gillian McKnight-Tutein Gillian McKnight-Tutein has been appointed chief educational equity officer for the Colorado Department of Higher Education. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from FIU, a master’s in human resources development and administration from Barry U.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Ideas for rethinking hiring and training practices in admissions departments. Practical advice on improving yield rates and celebrating the human side of admissions work. . • Strategies for using technology to enhance personal connections in the admissions process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

Overton has been named chief of the police department at Delaware State University. Overton holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Delaware State and a master’s degree in human resource management from Wilmington College in Delaware. Overton James T. This is his second time serving in the role, initially from 2005 to 2011.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 4, 2023

Department of Education – Accreditation and Quality Control 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton The recently filed Florida v. Department of Education lawsuit over accreditation and control could change the face of higher education across the US. The US Department of Justice has yet to file a response. The case, Florida v.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

But Heller is one of many to spot the four horsemen—call them defunding, recession, self-sabotage and artificial intelligence—on the humanities’ horizon. Heller makes only parenthetical reference to institutions, like the University of California, Berkeley , that have seen rising enrollments in humanities.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2024

When our department was challenged with establishing a requested program for all faculty, three P’s were apparent: People, Place, and Purpose. This document is a sample of how mentoring has strengthened a department that offers four undergraduate and two graduate programs. Mentors want the mentee to “prevail without discouragement” (p.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“We’re not just marching through the archives,” said Blackwood, who chairs the English department at Pace. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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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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