The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

Academics, union representatives and students expressed shock and dismay at the scale of the cuts, which were announced at staff meetings at the Russell Group university on Tuesday. Ceasing subjects and programmes in ancient history, modern languages and translation, music, nursing, and religion and theology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Service to humanity is the hallmark of philosophy, and in many ways, it shaped who I am and what I'm about in my day to day. Moore follows in the footsteps of other legendary leaders from South Carolina whove received the honor, many of whom broke down racial barriers throughout history, paving the way for him and others to succeed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

The Henry Luce Foundation announced on Friday, that Holloway will become its seventh President and CEO in the organization's 89-year history. Holloway's appointment comes after his term as Rutgers' 21st president and first Black president in the university's 250-year history. history, particularly social and intellectual history.

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HEPI

MAY 13, 2024

In current discussions of the value of humanities research, two concerns come across most strongly: the extent to which humanities research creates skills, and the extent to which humanities research is financially lucrative for individuals, the government and the economy. The second is rediscovery.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For many of us whose work or lived experiences connect race, gender, history, or sexuality, within education, exile is less about leaving and more about staying in a space where we know we’re not fully welcome. I’d argue that exile, in this sense, can bring out our best work, and history backs this up.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

Experiential learning is on the rise (Roberts & Welton 2022), perhaps because it can be a pathway to increased student engagement. 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.

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Dan Cohen

JANUARY 24, 2022

Whenever I check out a library book that has been underlined or annotated, I think about the two anonymous students who aggressively marked up Widener Library’s copy of Rollo May’s Man’s Search for Himself : I hope these two students did in fact meet at some point, although they may have been separated by decades.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Grammy-winning artist Usher Raymond IV will deliver the keynote address at Emory University's 180th Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 12, where he will Usher also receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. With eight Grammy Awards and nine No.

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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

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. International students comprise 30 percent of the student body.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes The national theme for Black History Month 2024 is “ African Americans and the Arts.” Black History Month 2024 is a time to recognize and highlight the achievements of Black artists and creators, and the role they played in U.S. history and in shaping our country today. ” – Carter G.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Founded in 2018 with the recognition that Black womens perspectives have long been marginalized in academia, BWSA was birthed as a necessary space for scholars dedicated to studying Black womens histories, politics, literature, and lived experiences. Jacinta Saffold and the organizations president, Dr. Nneka Dennie enrolled at the W.E.B.

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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. What’s behind this decline? No complex problem has a monocausal explanation.

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Dan Cohen

MARCH 16, 2022

We have become familiar with how technology, media, commerce, and forms of human expression are deeply intertwined. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email. (Sara Gothard, Library of Babel , 2017, in the Jamaica Plain branch of the Boston Public Library, part of their recently digitized art collection.).

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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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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

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 4, 2025

deGregory as a history professor and director of the Howard Institute for Advanced Study. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. Most recently, he was the Andrew W.

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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.

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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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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. To make history, it's helpful to know history. At the front end of the higher ed pipeline, the US is not producing enough domestic students with the resources or skills to succeed in college and beyond.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. A century later, AI is no longer fiction but a dynamic force in community college education, reshaping how faculty teach, and students learn. 2023; Topol, 2019).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Along lines or race and ethnicity, Black and Latino graduates in the humanities typically earn less than their white counterparts.

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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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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. With this Mellon-supported initiative, we aim to have a major impact on the key work of Wayne State: research, teaching, community engagement, and student success,” said Dr. M.

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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.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I love helping international students worldwide to reach their fullest potential and to access the best of education. I believe that human wisdom and experience are really worthy investments. So, we have to unlock the potential of the students with the help of education. What makes you get up in the morning?

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

In their study, “ Inside the Black Box ,” researchers discovered that algorithms used to predict student success produced false negatives for 19% of Black and 21% of Latinx students, incorrectly calculating these percentages of students would fail out of college. All the algorithms can see and learn,” said Anahideh.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and National Council of Negro Women — are doubling down on their endorsement of the Freedom to Learn campaign. 2, in Nashville, Tennessee. As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of Brown v.

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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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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

Thus, with our unprecedented longevity, its important for the traditional image of college students, those transitioning from high school and primarily in the second and third decades of life, to evolve. For college students, intergenerational learning is more than interacting with older adults. I am excited for my next 30 years!

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Canada, the UK, and Australia, three top destinations for international students, have imposed restrictive visa policies that limit mobility. While AI will never replace human relationships at the heart of international recruitment, it can enhance them. Meanwhile, the United States faces its own uncertainty.

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