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How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average

The Hechinger Report

We want the students to stay in their major of choice,” he said, whether in the sciences, social sciences or otherwise. Jimenez Delgado, an undocumented student who was born in Mexico but grew up in the Los Angeles area, said that “coming to college, I felt like it was going to be a lot of culture clashing — and it wasn’t.”

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Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Anthropology for Beginners

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. So the projects brought in teams from African studies programs who understood the culture.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Pure sciences like physics and chemistry are included in the liberal arts and sciences but not the humanities. That’s true for college students too.

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Meet 2025 RBSI Scholar, Maxwell Taylor, The University of Chicago

Political Science Now

On campus, Max has held several leadership roles as Political Chair of Pan Africanism of the African and Caribbean Student Association, Leadership and Development Coordinator of the IOP Leaders of Color program, and Editor of the Politics and Economic section of a black student-led newspaper titled, The Independence.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

As these Harvard training sessions took place, the California State Board of Education finally approved a new framework that sets out to make math more culturally responsive and inquiry-based. Kelly has taught a similar modeling course for economics and social sciences for the last few years.) The solution?

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OPINION: Want to save the beleaguered English major? Abandon it.

The Hechinger Report

The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that. These majors were designed for cultures that the vast majority of today’s students would barely recognize, and many have outworn their usefulness. We have a foundational first-year curriculum that includes them all.