Cultures Humanities Social Science 
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 1, 2018
The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 27, 2020
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. Related: Will this semester forever alter college?
Strange Maps
MARCH 3, 2025
But 21st-century culture wars are no Shakespeare play. A moral circle is a concept in philosophy and the social sciences that represents the groups of people and entities one considers worthy of moral concern. Are you steak or avocado?
ED Surge
AUGUST 12, 2024
Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. Finding a Balance Writing centers need to find a balance between introducing AI into the writing process and keeping the human support that every writer needs, argues Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 28, 2023
I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that.
Society for Classical Studies
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Often, the product of this influence is a colonialist narrative that presents past cultures as flawed or inconsistent (because they fail to meet modern criteria) and modern (usually Western) cultures as the resolution of these inconsistencies. Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,
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