HEPI

JUNE 20, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 2, 2023

EDTECH: How did you become interested in humanizing online classrooms? PACANSKY-BROCK: When I was getting my master’s degree in art history, I…

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Simmons will deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor from the federal government for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Simmons The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) lecture – “Facing History to Find a Better Future” – will take place 7 p.m. Dr. Ruth J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But I want to talk about the war in the context of the final days of Black History Month, and the one historical story I love because it shows Black history is American history is Asian American history. It’s a history lesson and a humanity lesson, that’s always worth repeating. Philippine War.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 9, 2024

Two new books take very different approaches to the study of humanity's origins. By Jacob Mikanowski Justin Renteria for The Chronicle Two new books take very different approaches to the study of humanity's origins.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Note: This article used collaboration between the human author and the AI programs of ChatGPT, Copilot, and Meta AI. While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. The Bill, an act to add Section 87359.2

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Note: This article used collaboration between the human author and the AI programs of ChatGPT, Copilot, and Meta AI. While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. The Bill, an act to add Section 87359.2

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Dan Cohen

JANUARY 24, 2022

I also happen to love this passage from Rollo May’s book, which is incredibly relevant to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter. And I think embracing the mistakes of robots is just as important as embracing the mistakes of humans. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email. to: Yamada Uns?d?,

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Why the HEED Award Matters For many institutions, the award offers “ammunition in their pocket,” says Pearlstein, “not only as recognition that validates their work, but giving them the ability to secure the human and financial resources needed to ensure continued success.”

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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. in economics as it does in humanities fields in most American universities?

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University Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Students at the University of Alabama could soon be required to take fewer writing, humanities and history courses as faculty vote on a major change to general education requirements this week. Students also will no longer have to complete a foreign language requirement if they took similar courses in high school. Read more on AL.com.

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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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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

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

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. Illogically, we remained isolationist and separatist.

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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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The PIE News

JULY 18, 2024

I’m grateful to have been building this skill set since I started my undergraduate Humanities degree. Studying history meant a lot of reading. This list of five could easily have been a list of ten (including obscure history knowledge that’s occasionally useful in pub quizzes!).

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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

JANUARY 22, 2023

He called instead for a new man who was willing to accept pain and discipline and adopt a cold, detached outlook on human life. Pain, like loss, is one of the hallmarks of human existence. Pain is an essential part of the human experience. A chief justification for medically-assisted suicide is to relieve unnecessary suffering.

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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.”

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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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Dan Cohen

MAY 25, 2021

Here’s a fun, brief introduction by Garrett Dash Nelson, with zooming and snapping hand motions reminiscent of Minority Report : And here’s a fuller example on the history of trolleys in Greater Boston: Note that this will work for other digital images, not just maps. I can imagine many uses for education and explanatory journalism.

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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.

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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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Dan Cohen

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Multimedia essays from the Plant Humanities Lab were recently posted and are worth a look. A good place to start is with the strange history of the banana , as illustrated by Ashley Buchanan in one of her Juncture-powered PHL pieces. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email.

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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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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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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 5, 2024

Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history Cuts to arts and humanities subjects within higher education will have damaging implications for our understanding of race and colonialism, academics have warned.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength. It's really important that we just be human." They provide professional development."

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

By Julian Roberts-Grmela Still from video by Carmen Mendoza, The Chronicle Irma Becerra English, history, and math are among the planned cuts as the university targets low-enrollment programs. Some faculty, students, and alumni are protesting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Nearly 100 Columbia University faculty members are criticizing the school’s plan to open a new research hub for professors and graduate students in Tel Aviv, Israel, citing the country’s human rights record and political situation, The New York Times reported. Critics cited concerns about academic freedom, complying with U.S.

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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. In a time of disinvestment and other budget pressures, these programs are too often the first to be cut. But they are where students learn to have difficult conversations in an atmosphere of free inquiry and expression.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 21, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Cornell University’s Impacts of AI Week: Farzin Lotfi-Jam, assistant professor of architecture and director of Cornell’s Realtime Urbanism lab, urges us to explore the questions at the intersection of AI and humanity.

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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. Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of melding often siloed disciplines of the humanities, arts and social sciences with STEM.

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