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Five ways my Humanities degree from a modern university has stood me in good stead

The PIE News

Attending seminars has prepared me for work meetings. My performance in seminars was best when I had prepared. I’m grateful to have been building this skill set since I started my undergraduate Humanities degree. Studying history meant a lot of reading. Here are a few snippets of them!

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The Dangers of Dogmatism

Inside Higher Ed

Creative nonfiction is manifest especially vividly in The New York Times ’s popular Modern Love column – with its raw, revealing, often wrenching narratives that illustrate the “complicated workings of the human heart.” The seminar emphasized the slow process of closely reading carefully curated texts.

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Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

or higher and an interest in Black history, life, and culture. There will be a seminar room, study space, and lounge, all headquartered on the first floor of the library. Ford, EHE Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University, said that she is impressed by this effort. "I Dr. Donna Y.

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Can Public Universities Scale Honors-Like Experiences for a Larger Number of Undergraduates?

Inside Higher Ed

A special entity offering select undergraduates signature classes, early course registration and exclusive access to internships, research opportunities, social and cultural events, and small, discussion-based seminars. Today’s honors college is the product of a complex history. Honors 4.0. A community service component.

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Gen Ed: Its Past, Present and Possible Future

Inside Higher Ed

Here, I’d like to discuss the history of general education: its rise, fall, current status and need to be radically rethought and reimagined. Even before the introduction of the first gen ed classes, leading universities had, alongside the advent of the seminar, begun to implement the delivery model that would come to define gen ed.

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Colleges need to address rise of white nationalism (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

As Christine Saxman and Shelly Tochluk point out on the blog Teaching While White , the Luskin Center for History and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, has a five-part rating system meant to help teachers and parents, among others, identify five stages of indoctrination into white nationalist thought.

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UCLA launches new initiative to study hate

Inside Higher Ed

Myers, director of the initiative and the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, said the study of hate is an ambitious undertaking, but the purpose of a major research university like UCLA is to “ask big questions and seek answers that make an impact in society. It’s supported by a $3 million gift from an anonymous donor.

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