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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Many of the programs affected are in the humanities and languages, making those disciplines less available to rural students than they are to urban and suburban ones. In all, more than 25 programs have now been eliminated there, many of them in the humanities. But students and faculty say it was still important to offer them.

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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). Lumpkin, A. &

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

The proportion of undergraduates who receive bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has fallen from a high of one in six to about one in 20 , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. Some scholars who have been studying veterans have published their work in the Journal of Veterans Studies , which was established in 2016 by Mariana Grohowski, who is also the editor.

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How career and technical education shuts out Black and Latino students from high-paying professions

The Hechinger Report

They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. That was a hard pill to swallow.”.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. This is her third year in the profession.

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Luther Gerlach

Anthropology News

In 1961, Gerlach was hired as an assistant professor of anthropology and sociology at Lafayette College, in Easton, Pennsylvania. He directed the graduate program in human ecology, which he founded and coordinated, and served as an instructor in Peace Corps training programs on campus. Suzanne Gerlach-Downie and Andrew Gerlach.