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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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. Colleges and universities hailing from both sides of the fence are inching ever closer to the middle, integrating lessons in the humanities with STEM-based curriculum—and vice versa. But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. Students with a special interest in humanities were found to experience a seven-grand bump, totaling $83,000. for physical science and history majors.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

These developments have thrust some higher education leaders to defend the place the humanities hold in the halls of our most prestigious institutions. “Whether one is studying to be a doctor or engineer, there is a person behind that specialization making choices and interpreting the world around them.”

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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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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Not a week goes by without new laments about the decline of the humanities and social sciences. When STEM disciplines integrate the humanities and arts , learning outcomes include critical thinking, resilience, self-efficacy and other valuable traits, such as “recruitment, learning and retention of women and underrepresented minorities.”

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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. And how did I end up in fintech?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

Dr. Hadis Anahideh, an assistant professor of industrial engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago and another co-author of the study, said she and her team expected to encounter bias in algorithms. They need to be aware that algorithms can be biased and unfair because of bias in the history, data. It becomes biased.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. It will be superior to humans in making purely rational calculations, aiming single-mindedly at maximal profit. It will avoid crowd enthusiasms, fads, and panics; and take advantage of humans who act emotionally. It will solve all its technical problems.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dr. Gilda Barabino Olin College of Engineering "Our use of AI in our teaching can be seen both as a threat to how students acquire foundational knowledge, but it can also be an enabler to enhance student learning,” said panelist Dr. Gilda A. Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 30, 2025

“ Did you know ” facts about your institution’s unique features or history How can schools use short-form video to attract students? Source: HMC Social Media as Search Engines: Optimizing for Discoverability Today, social media platforms are increasingly taking on the role of search engines for young people.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

in the arts or humanities graduated with more than $30,000 in graduate education debt, a much higher rate than for other racial groups. Approximately two-thirds of new arts, humanities and social science Ph.D.s in the natural sciences and engineering who graduate with no debt. History Ph.D.s Humanities Ph.D.s

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

KCU faculty members joined the program that includes mentorship, case presentations, curriculum information, how to take a medical history, a suture clinic, and identity workshops. Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering and Technology First-Generation Summer Start Scholars Program St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

As the fastest-growing technology in human history, it has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. As a tech-driven organization, L&T is committed to harnessing the power of AI to drive engineering and service excellence. Launch partners include Microsoft, Stanford Online, Google Cloud, AWS, DeepLearning.AI

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Suny’s emphasis on the power of narrative is in line with a broader drift in scholarship that is exerting a powerful influence on anthropology, history, medicine, psychology and sociology. Narratives, she writes, are “ unanalyzed and powerful shapers of human experience.”

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance? True technical innovation always requires the marriage of humanities and technology, anyway. Upon graduation, newly credentialed students can join the modern workforce.

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University Business

AUGUST 26, 2024

I’m an evangelist of sorts for virtual reality in higher ed, but I don’t think I’m overstating the case when I say that VR in its many forms holds the capacity to revolutionize a multitude of sectors, including education, healthcare, entertainment and engineering. Many industries are using virtual reality already.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Kelly Kang, who manages the survey for the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, said the pandemic indeed “appears to be one of the factors in a significant decline in the number of doctorate recipients in 2021.” Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Imagine a history course where students interact with AI-based chatbots posing as historical figures or a literature course where AI-generated scenarios allow students to delve deeper into a novel’s context. Questions of data privacy, technical requirements, and the potential loss of the human touch in education often surface.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. ” But CMU-Africa has been followed by a cloud of controversy over its partnership with a Rwandan government led by president Paul Kagame, who has been accused of a litany of human rights abuses.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Binder’s Language and the Rise of the Algorithm ( University of Chicago Press, December ) looks into the history of efforts to bridge the differences between communication and computation. The book’s description notes that boosters and doomsayers alike anticipate that “machines will soon do everything better than humans.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Or to take some other examples of high ROI fields: “Those with a bachelor’s degree in #architecture and #engineering have median lifetime earnings of $3.8 No surprise: computers, math, healthcare practice, architecture, engineering, and business. Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

At Lehman, we have the platform and the resources to partner with schools and communities in the Bronx to be a social and economic engine — that is what helps us become intentionally an HSI and a Minority Serving Institution (MSI),” says Delgado. “We We are around 83% students of color.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. It’s important to note that mindsets vary and humans are not always one or the other. Use the Innovation Engine to teach a concept within your class. A fixed mindset does quite the opposite.

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes Christina Katopodis is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Transformative Learning in the Humanities at the City University of New York (CUNY). A History major might collaborate with archivists. A History major might collaborate with archivists. Would you stay on the call, or would you jump off?

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Today's Learner

JANUARY 14, 2025

While todays scholars rightly emphasize global connections and diversity to combat historical biases and colonialist (imperialist) mindsets, the centrality of Western Civilization as a foundational model for human development cannot be overstated. As students dive into this diverse narrative, they will be met by the contradictions of history.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Imagine a history course where students interact with AI-based chatbots posing as historical figures or a literature course where AI-generated scenarios allow students to delve deeper into a novel’s context. Questions of data privacy, technical requirements, and the potential loss of the human touch in education often surface.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Melody speaks to all humans, rhythm speaks to everyone on the planet. Music takes you out of your circumstances of life,” said Sean Slade, a music producer and associate professor in the Music Production and Engineering Department at Berklee College of Music. Music is the universal language.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. I thought I could make more of a difference at MIT because of its unique role in science and engineering.”

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

By telling stories, the argument goes, we learn empathy, discover ourselves, and become more humane. A history starts with the historical context necessary to understand the argument. A history of an idea. Not only does narrative humanize, but it also educates us about how to put things in order. Chronologies of events.

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