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

The Hechinger Report

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that. It means that each student works on projects with peers whose cultural context is different from their own.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. Challenges of 21st-Century Learning.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Sapiens

The project investigates how communities accommodate differences in culturally resonant ways and asks what everyday practices and justifications they draw on to maintain civil relations and avoid conflict and violence. To start, this means insisting that a scholar’s work is more than their social media presence.

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Anthropology against Behavioral Science

Anthropology News

While these trends have been underway in the subfields of global health and economic development for some time, increasingly similar demands are being made for the incorporation of SBS into the fields of democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG). In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.